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As you know, the web is based on standards, those standards give us the ability to access all the data on the web whatever our browser and/or operating system are.

But Microsoft didn’t care much about web standards when they were building their own web browser: internet explorer. IE had more than 90 % market shares for a long time but nowadays it’s less than 70 %, because of new browsers (more secure, faster, more standard compliant, etc.).

So Microsoft updated it’s web browser with IE 7, which is a bit more standard compliant but far away compared to other browsers like Chrome, Konqueror, Firefox, Opera or Safari.

Unfortunately, lots of web sites were developed to be usable with IE 6 (which still have nearly 18 % market share), and IE 6 is so buggy that’s a real pain to have a good website being usable with IE 6.

Web standards give us the power to create wonderful websites, web applications, but we usually can’t because we have to take IE 6 users in account.

The content of my blog should not attract IE users but here are the usage:

• Firefox: 52 %
• IE: 21 % (IE 6: 45 %, IE 7: 50 %)
• Safari: 10%

Somebody had the great idea to start a campaign against IE 6 (I hope, if the goal is met, he is going to create a new campaign for IE 7 which is not a lot better):

The goal is obviously to wipe out IE 6 by telling people still using IE 6 (or older!) to switch to a newer browser (you can add a little script on your website warning IE 6 users that they should update their browser).