Brett Favre is the IE6 of football
Brett Favre is a Viking, pending a physical.
Once considered perhaps the greatest current version, this faulty, quirky, and bug prone passer has become the entity that just won’t go away.
Speaking of icons who just won’t go away, this gels nicely with the fact that Microsoft will be supporting IE6 until 2014…
The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have.
As engineers, we want people to upgrade to the latest version. We make it as easy as possible for them to upgrade. Ultimately, the choice to upgrade belongs to the person responsible for the PC.
Anyone else notice that the ‘IE Blog’ from that link above looks like crap too… just like IE6?
The rest of us are going to have to live with Microsoft’s crap a little longer… just as the Viking nation will have to live with what was once a great quarterback, but is now just an inkling of what he once was in the face of newer, younger, faster, stronger, and more accurate talent for at least the next year, as Favre is set to sign a 2-year deal today.
Let’s compare and contrast the icons:
| IE6 | Brett Favre |
| No support for transparent PNGs | Total transparency on passes |
| Developed by a once legendary corporation | Developed by a once legendary team |
| Spotty CSS performance | Spotty performance, period |
| Alive during the wee days of HTML 4 | Alive when the fumblerooskie were still legal |
| A shady, gray take on standards | A shady, gray take on beards |
| Lining up behind Firefox | Lining up behind center |
| A major disappointment this far into career | A major disappointment this far into career |
2 Responses
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August 18th, 2009 at 15:15 | #1
Classic. I don’t know which disappoints me more, Farve’s return or the decision to support IE6 until 2014.
