{"id":608902,"date":"2009-12-04T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/How-Long-Has-IE6-to-Live-128922.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-04T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:08:00","slug":"how-long-ie6-has-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/608902","title":{"rendered":"How Long IE6 Has to Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, here’s another anti-IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) article to go with the 254,000 I found on Google recently. While many of IE6’s detractors are web designers or web developers, we can certainly put on the board some greater flaws in Microsoft’s browser than the extra amount of working hours put by professionals to optimize websites for it.<\/p>\n

In the past, several security vulnerabilities plagued the browser in the eyes of a lot of industry experts, many of them actively recommending some of IE’s rivals as more secure browsers to use.<\/p>\n

There are many news articles across the web, which report on vulnerability flaws. For example, this one on The H Security, or Computer World. Let’s not even explore our Security or Microsoft news sections that are full with all kinds of Internet Explorer 6-related stories.<\/p>\n

In the past few years, IE6 has revealed many security flaws that had serious consequences on user privacy. From ActiveX holes to SSL certificates, from drive-by installs to code injections, IE6 managed to get itself time after time, year after year in Secunia’s Security Report.<\/p>\n

But all bad things lead to something good. While constantly trying to improve on its browser’s security, Microsoft’s later products have been recognized as some of the safest environments for Internet browsing these days, as an NSS Labs… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, here’s another anti-IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) article to go with the 254,000 I found on Google recently. While many of IE6’s detractors are web designers or web developers, we can certainly put on the board some greater flaws in Microsoft’s browser than the extra amount of working hours put by professionals to optimize websites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2yp0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}