Help .net Magazine Execute IE6
Everyone knows how much I hate Internet Explorer 6. I personally wasn’t a fan when it had 90% market penetration and I am even less of a fan now that it is somehow hanging onto a 20ish% share long after it should be dead.
The unfortunate reality is that IE6 is still important. Although, its market share is slowly dwindling there are still a large number of important business users on IE6. .net Magazine has started a new campaign called “Bring Down IE6.” You can check it out here: http://www.bringdownie6.com/ which is trying to help combat this problem and they’re looking for web developer support.
Obviously, I support this campaign, hence this article. I don’t think this is enough. I think as web developers we should put a header on every site that only shows to IE6 users…. using hacks of course. This bar would basically inform the user their using a grossly outdated browser and give them links to download Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Opera. Many of these users have no idea just how outdated their software is. They may have disabled their automatic Windows updates back in 2002 and didn’t realize that browsing technology has changed drastically since that time. We can have all the campaigns we want but if the people with the problem don’t know that they have IE6 and that it’s outdated then the problem is not going to get solved.
I look at it kind of like having cancer. If you don’t know you have it often you can live with it undetected but as soon as you find you have cancer you’ll get it treated. At any rate a campaign is a step in the right direction. It is amazing to me how many of our IE6 customers have no idea they are outdated or even what browser they use. Many of them don’t even know there are competing products to Internet Explorer. They just assume that is how everyone views the Internet.
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