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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I agree completely, although many of the features that MS added in IE were in that direction too. It's just stupid that everyone else decided to go in a completely different direction, often reinventing stuff. Examples: userData (DOM storage), ActiveX (Google Native Client), etc.

The other day I discovered that RWI, one of our flagship AJAX web applications, required only 2 lines of code changes to get working in IE6. One particular page uses 12.5MB there, while it takes over 60MB in a relatively recent (<6 months old) version of Firefox and 59MB in Chrome (2 processes)! A rather old pre-HTML5 version of Opera takes 16.8MB, which is pretty good. Keeping in mind that this page works in all of the above browsers, WTF is going on?