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IE6">Dear Viewers Using IE6

By Nick Hodge | January 6, 2009

Dear Inter­net Explorer 6.0 (IE6) Users,

Only 20% of browsers in the world are still using IE6, and 22% of vis­it­ors to this site are still using IE6. IE6 is the work of the evil @basementcat. I strongly sug­gest you upgrade to Inter­net Explorer 7 or 8.

Why? Later browsers sup­port more web sites, espe­cially the many that are now writ­ten with Web Stand­ards in mind. Sites designed with Web Stand­ards render quicker as browsers do not have to magic­ally inter­pret bad code.

Also, secur­ity. As Microsoft takes Inter­net secur­ity ser­i­ously, there are strong fea­tures in Inter­net Explorer 8 to stop nasty things happening.

So, please upgrade your browser.

kthxbai

Topics: technology | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Dear Viewers Using IE6”

  1. Andrew Smith Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 11:42 am

    It’s less typ­ing to use http://www.ie7.com

    Andrew

    (duck­ing!)

  2. andrew Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 8:02 am

    I posit two main groups of users who are delay­ing the death of IE6:

    1. “Mum and Dad” home users. Because IE is tightly integ­rated with Win­dows, I think many people have no con­cep­tion that they are using an applic­a­tion called Inter­net Explorer, let alone know which ver­sion it is; all they see is Teh Interwebs.

    2. Cor­por­ate and gov­ern­ment users with stand­ard, locked-down desktops. These stand­ard envir­on­ments take lit­er­ally years to build. Any new applic­a­tion or update can require up to 18 months of integration/sociability test­ing. And that’s not to men­tion the intranets that are coded to work in IE6 only. Upgrad­ing IE6 to IE7 becomes an expens­ive and drawn-out exer­cise, and where is the ROI?

    Thoughts?

  3. Rob Howard Says:
    January 11th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    My Uni (UTS; yes, it’s sad, really) still uses IE 6 across all its lab and lectern com­puters. The IT depart­ment lives in the Dark Ages. It’s kind of sad, com­ing from a TAF… Err, Uni­ver­sity of “Technology”.

  4. Thomas Suters Says:
    January 20th, 2009 at 1:18 am

    Rat­bags web­site http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/files/about.htm by a skep­tic has a break­down of browsers. IE6-34%, IE7-27%, Firefox-16%, rest in the mud. Of the OS’s, XP has 62%, there is obvi­ously no fil­ter for Vespa or whatever the O/S in use now, so I guess it is lis­ted as Oth­ers, NT is 10%, Mac 2%. This couldn’t pos­sibly be accur­ate. Still its from a Skep­tic rsole?

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