Even Microsoft Wants IE6 Dead 285
Tarmas writes "Microsoft has launched a website intended to persuade people to upgrade their browsers from Internet Explorer 6. In Microsoft's words: 'This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers.' About time?"
Of course they want you to upgrade to a newer Internet Explorer.
If only other devs used ie6-upgrade-warning.. (Score:4, Informative)
I've used ie6-upgrade-warning [google.com] for some of my projects.
It's quite obnoxious, and usually gets the job done.
I'll switch (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I'll switch (Score:5, Informative)
Five seconds on Google.
Re:Beware of what you wish for. (Score:4, Informative)
IE9 is beta (Release Candidate is still more "beta" than "final"), so you wished to use beta software by installing it in the first place. You could have just used IE8 and had no problems, then upgraded to IE9 when IE9 is ready.
Re:I'm a web developer and I don't like this (Score:5, Informative)
I am working for a big e-commerce website (think several hundred million euros of yearly revenue) and we are actually putting up a banner for IE6 users. We still test it for now but don't spend time on design. Most websites in France are moving in this direction.
Now, when I won't have to worry about it at all, I'll celebrate a second time !
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Re:If only other devs used ie6-upgrade-warning.. (Score:4, Informative)
Wow, that's annoying.
So are driveby infections because people still use IE6.
And the botnets/spam it creates. Pick your poison.
Re:If only other devs used ie6-upgrade-warning.. (Score:4, Informative)
Chrome does all that just fine. Google is serious about wanting their browser on the business desktop.
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.html [google.com]