Stop IE6
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).
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you'll like this:
http://journal.georgechang.net/2009/03/16/a-declaration-of-war-against-internet-explorer-6/
At last! Even Microsoft wants IE6 death: http://ie6countdown.com/
Looks like the bad players are Asian countries, especially China.