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.

Imageshack is probably the worst image host out there.
Maybe because you have all those "features" enabled? With JS off it's a perfectly usable image host. (Better than some that don't even work without JS.)

It's amazing how you automatically associate ``web dev'' with ``JS/CSS abuse''.
It's amazing how you automatically associate ``black person'' with ``steals things''.

The term "web developer" has taken that association precisely because of the practices of the majority of them. I make websites too but I don't call myself that.

And for the content to be displayed properly not only in your browser, but in all (or almost all) browsers
Depends what you mean by "properly". To me, it's "can I see the text and the important images? If so, it's good. This div/span/whatever is a few pixels out of place in some browsers? Font size or colour not the same? Doesn't matter a gnat's ass."

>>65
The idea of "usability" created by "UI designers" these days is "let's make things look 'simpler' by hiding everything and making UI elements non-obvious"... UIs these days are dumbed down and contain extra roadblocks to usage, possibly just to create more work.

>>63,67
This is probably why some of the best sites are noncommercial ones. Commercial interests want things like HTML5 because it creates work, whether or not that work is actually useful or just frivolous waste. From the lazy employee perspective, anything that takes time with little gain means "I can earn more by doing less!", while everyone sane loathes such inefficiency. Looks like another case of "Money is the root of all evil"...