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The Bring Down IE6 Campaign
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by miralize | March 21, 2009 at 06:59 pm
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Bring Down IE6 is a website created to combat the ever-growing hatred against Microsofts ageing Web Browser
The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out. This isn’t about being anti-Microsoft, it’s about Microsoft’s lack of development in the browser market. With IE7/8 not available for Windows 2000, IE6 accounts for up to 20% of web usage, primarily via business users. Clients pressure designers to ‘force’ sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds. This wastes time and money. Microsoft needs to fix this, designers need to unite, and we all need to move on.
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at 19:09 on March 21st, 2009
Why not use Google Chrome or Firefox , then..?
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at 07:55 on March 22nd, 2009
IE6 is a dinosaur, only really used by people who either don't know how or are unwilling to upgrade their browsers. To most people, IE is the only browser to trust because it "came with the computer". This is Microsoft's business plan, of course, and has successfully flogged second-rate software for a generation.
While there is no such thing as universal computing ("it just works" is a fantasy, feverishly pursued by developers 'round the globe to satisfy clients who often have a tenuous grasp of how the Internet works), getting rid of IE6 would at least get the Pintos off the road.