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jellybean
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« on: March 15, 2010, 09:29:09 AM »

Hi All,

Can you tell me what we might expect with shape 5 and joomla 1.6?

All the templates I had for joomla 1.0 were trashed, and never used.

I need to plan to pass the expense to customers, to be up to date with security and all, will we loose the 1.5 templates too?


do you know yet?

Thanks!


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« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2010, 04:57:10 PM »

Hello, I am not sure what you mean by our 1.0 templates being trashed, all of our templates that were 1.0 were converted to 1.5. We plan on releasing our templates as 1.6 as well, we do not have release dates available for you at this time. The transition from 1.5 to 1.6 will not be anywhere near the magnitude that 1.0 to 1.5 was though, only slight modifications are needed.
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« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2010, 07:40:42 PM »

Other templates I had before I joined shape5, not these.  If you are going to upgrade all to 1.6 that's very good news!
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2010, 07:27:25 AM »

Hello, I cannot promise that it will be all of them, but most likely.
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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2010, 05:50:58 PM »

The really big question is whether the IE6 compatible browsers will still be IE6 compatible if converted to Joomla 1.6.  Yes is is the worst browser in the history of the world but it is still used by 19% of the market (by comparison Firefox has a static 24.5% which is not a big margin). 

It is fair to say the on the whole, the remaining IE6 users will not upgrade but continue using the browser that came with their computer until the actual computer dies and in the real world we cannot afford to ignore 20% of our customer base.
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« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2010, 06:29:36 AM »

Hello, browser compatibility won't change for the 1.6 templates. The templates themselves and their css are already coded it's simply just a couple of mostly xml and php updates to make it work with 1.6.
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« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2010, 03:42:56 PM »


"It is fair to say the on the whole, the remaining IE6 users will not upgrade but continue using the browser that came with their computer until the actual computer dies and in the real world we cannot afford to ignore 20% of our customer base."


Some of us are choosing to do exactly that.  They aren't going to make changes unless "driven"   

If they can't afford a modern computer they probably can't afford my clients products. 

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« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2010, 11:23:00 PM »

IE6 besides being unstable also helps promote viruses and other headaches due to its shortcomings and no longer being supported.

If you have clients which can't afford a new computer, you can recommend Opera which will run even on Windows 98.

A lot of people simply refuse to upgrade or get stuck in their ways.

I was working on a major project about 5 years ago (Avg rank on Alexa was 15,000). We had a meeting because there were a few people during beta that were having a scream fest that AOL browser wasn't rendering the site correctly and that AOL mail was taking the domains mail straight to spam. When you have to choose between 20% to the rest of the 80%, it is not a hard choice. Point of the story? Where is AOL 5 years later?   Shocked

Guide your clients wisely.

Thank you.  Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2010, 09:35:06 PM »

Sorry but its not our clients computers that are the problem.  Its their customers that can't access their sites because they are not IE6 compatible.  You cannot ignore commercial reality.  No-one can ignore 20% of their potential customer base and stay in business. That was AOLs problem.  They expected the market to follow them instead of providing what the market wanted.

Case in point.  The Australian Government still mandates IE6 as the standard browser in all government offices.  As much as we disagree, rant rave and self justify, that is the case and we can't do a thing about it.
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« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2011, 09:53:02 AM »

We also have the same issues. The corporate clients are still using IE6 and bugged us..which we have look at all the backward compatability
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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2011, 02:54:34 AM »

I'm having difficulty ong using the 1.6 templates. any new updates?
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« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2011, 07:28:42 AM »

Hello,

If you are having issues please post your questions in the forum board of the template you are using and please the describe the detail in full.
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