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re: Internet Explorer 6 - Time to go. Please.

Julian Vallis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:06:17 GMT

The problem of IE is the network effect associated with its users. Since corporate IT depts still insist on using IE6 despite its massive security shortcomings, and also us web developers continuing to use it, then MS will continue to support it while there's a userbase.

Everyone knows that IE6 needs to die. But it's us as digital professionals that need to make a collective stand to our clients and say "enough is enough: use IE6 for your legacy apps that only work with it, alongside a proper browser that your users can use for general browsing of the internet and in a more secure manner.

Also, at least one other web giant is taking the bull by the horns, and MS aren't happy, but it's a necessary move: code.google.com/.../chromeframe

re: Internet Explorer 6 - Time to go. Please.

SEAN RUTTLEDGE — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:56:53 GMT

d357r0y everything

re: Internet Explorer 6 - Time to go. Please.

Jack Wallington — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:44:52 GMT

Yes yes yes! Destroy.

re: O Google, I surrender my soul to thee

Dan Ma — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:39:08 GMT

Apologies John, been out of the country for a little while.

GoogleMail doesn't use folders, but uses "labels" (or tags if you will) to organise emails. I'm big on filing emails away in folders so it was really strange for me to grasp at first, but it's now growing on me. One of the key benefits is you can associate more than one label to an email.

You create a new label by clicking on the "Create New" in the "Labels" button. Once you've done that you can assign a label to an email. You can also choose to "auto-label" any emails that come in with certain criteria.

And best of all, if you use IMAP, the labels appear as folders in your mail client.

You've probably read this already, but here's a useful link on folders:

mail.google.com/.../answer.py

Good luck...

re: O Google, I surrender my soul to thee

John Gallen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:44:47 GMT

Hi Dan,

I do google mail but have never really figured out a decent way to file my mails. how do you create a folder to dump x or y in? I find the help info to be poor.

Cheers, J