The IE6 Demoscene

There's an active community of people in the demoscene writing code for long-"obsolete" platforms like C64, Atari, NES, etc. These platforms are slow, quirky, and relatively limited, yet they can do all these amazing things with them.

Seeing all these HTML5 "new features" demos, the thought occurred to me: what can we do with a more limited browser? Not something really limited like Lynx, but something still considered obsolete yet maybe more powerful than most people would think. How about IE6? It has JavaScript so you can write programs in it, lots of undocumented/buggy behaviour, and relatively slow, so could be compared to a C64 in some ways. (Lynx would be like a 4004.) What sort of things can you do with it? Should there be a demoscene category "Platform: IE6"?

Discuss.

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"reckless endangerment" of who? The user herself. It's my fucking choice.

And I'll argue that IE is more secure than Firefox or Chrome if configured properly, because by default you have zone-granular control over exploit routes like ActiveX and JavaScript. Turn off everything for all sites, turn on what you need only for sites you trust. You can't do that easily with Firefox without needing to bloat things even more with an assortment of extensions, and Chrome is even more pathetic in comparison. Sure they have "Disable JavaScript" but that's all or nothing.

It's also hilarious to see people say "but I was using Firefox/Chrome/<insert your advertised-as-safe browser here>! There's no way I could've gotten infected from that, because I didn't use IE!" To push the car analogy further, it's like saying "I can drive drunk because I have airbags and ABS." Idiots.