Fast Lane!

I agree. I am waiting on Cleancut and the "Active topics" and "New Topics Since last Visit".

I almost destroyed my mouse clicking on the client area :lol: hopefully it will be here in a few days, the excitement is overwhelming :P

I know this has been talked about before but IE6 will not be fully supported in IPB 3.x. As of today IPB 3.x renders unusable in many circumstances on IE6 however Charles and other IPB Staff indicate that it will be supported better (but not fully) in the final release. My question is this. Will it be possible to utilize all the new IPB 3.x features without IE6 native support? Would it require a complex (and costly) 3rd party skin to obtain this and if so would this lead to compatibility and other problems with future upgrades?

What are people's thoughts? As of today it was published that IE6 globally still has a 23% market share (http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/03/04/firefox.overtakes.ie6/), which is a HUGE portion of potential users that would be affected by this. My sites have about a 15% IE6 user base based on my statistics and even that number is high enough for me to be concerned about them. My personal opinion is that despite the urge to move forward to a more standards compliant skin, supporting IE6 is still an evil that we have to deal with. No matter how much we want, many people are not upgrading any time soon. Sites like Digg.com which is very web 2.0'ish even support IE6.

Basically, what are people's plan to overcome this issue? Please do not simply post "tell my users to upgrade to IE7/8/firefox". This is not the question and not realistic. I am NOT going to have a major website say, "Best if browsed with IE7 or higher, Firefox, etc".

I know this has been talked about before but IE6 will not be fully supported in IPB 3.x. As of today IPB 3.x renders unusable in many circumstances on IE6 however Charles and other IPB Staff indicate that it will be supported better (but not fully) in the final release. My question is this. Will it be possible to utilize all the new IPB 3.x features without IE6 native support? Would it require a complex (and costly) 3rd party skin to obtain this and if so would this lead to compatibility and other problems with future upgrades?

What are people's thoughts? As of today it was published that IE6 globally still has a 23% market share (http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/03/04/firefox.overtakes.ie6/), which is a HUGE portion of potential users that would be affected by this. My sites have about a 15% IE6 user base based on my statistics and even that number is high enough for me to be concerned about them. My personal opinion is that despite the urge to move forward to a more standards compliant skin, supporting IE6 is still an evil that we have to deal with. No matter how much we want, many people are not upgrading any time soon. Sites like Digg.com which is very web 2.0'ish even support IE6.

Basically, what are people's plan to overcome this issue? Please do not simply post "tell my users to upgrade to IE7/8/firefox". This is not the question and not realistic. I am NOT going to have a major website say, "Best if browsed with IE7 or higher, Firefox, etc".