Stop using IE6 1313 Responses

Last post: 3 years, 6 months ago | Thread started: Aug 5, 08, 8:30 a.m.

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• Haydesign

  Well, W3C say IE6 is down to 26.5%.
  Dropping a percent a month.

  http://www.w3schools.com/browser…

  Can someone create a logo or something we can all attach to the bottom of our emails to get these little fucks back with the program and make an entire industry happy. I would do a free e-marketing campaign for Microsoft too!

  Shiiiiiit, I would do a leaflet drop round the whole country!!

  Aug 5, 08, 8:30 a.m. – Permalink

• SoulFly

  firefox is better

  • +10– fodcj1/8

    firefox sucks on mac.– _niko2/8

    not really, the new one is pretty good. that said, i still mainly use safari– ephix3/8

    to _niko– ephix4/8

    FF sucks– BattleAxe5/8

    that's what I use, a mac.
    works nice for me. Maybe you have to run the updates.– SoulFly6/8

    I mostly use FF, but Safari's Clear Cache function is pretty handy when developing with Flash.– richardkark7/8

    Safari is better– modern8/8

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 8:32 a.m. – Permalink

• trooper

  if there was a tag for post 1 it would be +1000000000000000000000000000000...

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 8:32 a.m. – Permalink

• Arran

  IE6 is annoying

  • x2– moldero

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 8:34 a.m. – Permalink

• creative-

  Everyone needs to put an IE6-only redirect to http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/0…

  • on their sites– creative-

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 8:47 a.m. – Permalink

• johnnnnyh

  problem is that behind corporate firewalls and obstructive IT departments upgrading your browser is not always YOUR option. I think that explains the high percentage of users. I use IE6 because my clients use it and their sites need to work in it. Until their IT department upgrades we're stuck making things work for it.

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 8:49 a.m. – Permalink

• jamble

  I don't think that's an excuse any more (for IT depts). I reckon they're unlikely to be using any other software on their network that hasn't been upgraded for about 7-8 years so why IE?

  • You're right, plus there's plenty of security benefits to 7.– Mimio

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 8:50 a.m. – Permalink

• creative-

  http://www.savethedevelopers.org…

  • Should have been the link in my post above– creative-

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 8:50 a.m. – Permalink

• johnnnnyh

  I agree they should be upgrading but I guess if you've got the basic XP install and you controll the updates then changing an application like IE is not going to happen. I think IT departments like to lock all non essential (in their eyes) upgrades out. So basically, XP with IE6 working - leave it and don't risk upgrading unless you really have to.
  In a big corporation this can actually make sense. Everyone on the same thing - with little or no ability to customize or change the settings.
  But I agree it's very short sighted.

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 8:54 a.m. – Permalink

• PSYKHO

  I shit on IE!

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 9:09 a.m. – Permalink

• sherman

  I was interested to learn that 37 Signals is phasing out support for IE6

  About time!

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 9:10 a.m. – Permalink

• modern

  Its backward IT admins that are the biggest problem, home users should drop quickly now because luckily Windows becomes so fucking shit after about 2 years of home use that most people upgrade machines anyway.

  Its all down to incompetent admins and their shitty intranets coded by fucking morons that they foolishly invested in

  • or intranets that were built when IE6 was on top and have not been updated?– Stugoo1/2

    and could cost the compnay thousands, so to the compnay its no big deal to keep it the same for now?– Stugoo2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 9:16 a.m. – Permalink

• Haydesign

  Please email all clients and friends now.

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 9:19 a.m. – Permalink

• Stugoo

  wait till ie 8 comes out then update the browsers/intranets with the metadata switching?

  

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  Dog-earAug 5, 08, 9:22 a.m. – Permalink