Comment Microsoft va-t-il pousser les utilisateurs d'anciennes versions d'IE à passer à IE 9 ? Combien de temps encore les développeurs Web – et donc le Web en général – devra-t-il traîner IE 6, le boulet du Web ?

Internet Explorer interprète les dimensions CSS différemment des autres navigateurs, ou plutôt interprétait... Contrairement à ce que laissent supposer certains articles et propos de designers "chevronnés" qui n'en démordent pas, Internet Explorer 6 de Microsoft interprète les dimensions CSS des pages html et xhml valides de la même manière que les autres navigateurs de même génération.

With each new release of Windows Internet Explorer, support for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard has steadily improved. Internet Explorer 6 was the first fully CSS, Level 1-compliant version of Internet Explorer. Windows Internet Explorer 8 is fully compliant with the CSS, Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) specification and supports some features of CSS Level 3 (CSS 3).

All of this makes it easy to forget what browser is still dominating the market. According to Net Application’s Market Share data, that browser is Internet Explorer 6 (Internet Explorer 6.0), released in August 2001.

Today, we're releasing an early version of Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer.

With Google Chrome Frame, developers can now take advantage of the latest open web technologies, even in Internet Explorer. From a faster Javascript engine, to support for current web technologies like HTML5's offline capabilities and canvas, to modern CSS/Layout handling, Google Chrome Frame enables these features within IE with no additional coding or testing for different browser versions.

Google Chrome Frame est un plug-in open source qui s’installe dans Internet Explorer 6, 7 et 8 pour permettre au navigateur de Microsoft d’utiliser le moteur de rendu de Chrome, sans en modifier l’interface.

You're not alone. According to a 2009 Forrester Research study, 60 percent of companies are using IE6 as their default browser at work, as their IT departments are reluctant to upgrade and support a current browser. If you're in this situation, we've put together a letter you can pass on to your IT department. Just copy and paste it into an e-mail and customize it as you see fit. Get your colleagues to send a letter too.