DISQUS

Robin Wauters · 3 months ago

Ha! Here's two more of those sites:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/woah-peopl...

Zoli Erdos · 3 months ago

Robin, that link took me to a password protected area, I could not close the login box, or the tab, or even Firefox itself. Had to ctrl-alt-del shut it down.

Robin Wauters · 3 months ago

Yeah we had a technical prob for about 5 minutes, apologies. Should work fine now.

Sites are http://hey-it.com and http://ie6update.com by the way.

Anthony Ha · 3 months ago

Thanks Robin, would have included a link to your other article too, but there's only so much TechCrunch linking I can I can get away with in a single post.

Robin Wauters · 3 months ago

Ha! I wasn't looking for an extra link to our post, but rather the two other anti-IE6 sites.

website builder · 1 month ago

WebStarts.com is no longer supporting IE6 either.

Joshua Sciarrino · 3 months ago

You do realize that a large portion of people that are using IE6 are at work where they have NO control over the browser...

Stupid startups. I like the idea but...it's not practical when you hear that a majority of the computers are businesses...where some IT guy controls the issue.

dangrossman · 3 months ago

When the CEO can't take his YouTube breaks he'll have the IT guys update the company's browsers.

Facebook User · 3 months ago

That's exactly the idea. Even if a bunch of the remaining IE 6 users are corporate, hopefully a few of them will become aware of the fact that their browser is almost 9 years old and start putting pressure on IT to upgrade.

duke · 3 months ago

The line needs to be drawn sometime. 2 major versions and most of a decade (how much time is this in internet time?) are a good indication that these people/companies have no intention of upgrading. At this point, the only reasons to not upgrade are all poor excuses to cover up failure.

If a company can't afford to upgrade their internal apps, they can cry on someone else's shoulder. I refuse to suffer as a developer because they don't have sysadmins who know how to audit applications. If they don't have the money/time to do it now, they should just give it up. They'll use the same excuse in 6 months, next year, 5 years from now, etc. They will never have the time or money to do this, but the excuses... those never run out.

If you can get by and easily support this relic, then more power to you, but enjoy your maintenance costs. I can no longer justify this, for sure.

I'm happy to leave these dinosaurs in the dust. Good riddance.

rojo · 3 months ago

They need to include IE 7 and 8 in that too.

Tim · 3 months ago

Yeah, I'm a web developer and I find IE7 and IE8 no better. The support for CSS is marginally better but still different enough from FF/Sf/Chr/Op that it needs to be separately tested and needs its own custom stylesheet. The support for vector graphics and bitmap graphics is exactly the same (VML instead of SVG, and nothing instead of Canvas, respectively). Plus IE8 added all kinds of new ways for things to break, especially with its two rendering engines ("kind of like IE7 but not exactly" and "completely different from anything else in the world"), and you can never be absolutely certain which you're getting.

Some of the people I work with hate IE8 even more than IE6. In the past couple months, we've certainly spent the most browser-compatibility time on IE8. At least IE6's flaws are well-known and well-documented. IE8 sucks in twice as many all-new ways, and doesn't actually fix any of the big-picture problems that IE6 had.

I guess they're trying to do this in a way that's Microsoft-friendly, but really, IE6 is no worse than IE7 or IE8.

venkat · 3 months ago

Ie 6 is dead for me and internet .

Zoli Erdos · 3 months ago

What, they introduced IE 6? I totally missed that.. still surfing on IE 2.0 :-)

AJ · 3 months ago

Did the folks at justin.tv, posterous, and weebly previously A/B test the messaging on that banner?

namenameere · 3 months ago

Bah IE6 rocked and I wanna use Netscape Navigator once more!

Matt · 3 months ago

Why is Opera not listed as one of the suggested alternatives?

jirolico · 3 months ago

Opera, as good as it is, has 2% market share and is thus, quite unfortunately, looked over by most people.

ThinkSketchDesign · 3 months ago

Here's one of those ideas that's too tempting to admit at first that's it's stupid:

What if we just cicumvent IE completely with a browser emulator?. If someone is using IE, we just open up a full-screen flash player and run a pixel by pixel emulator of, say, Firefox. Yeah, it's insidious, but it just.. might.. work...
-thinksketchdesign.com