Yes, finally I have decided to Kill Internet Explorer 6 on my blog. If you are using IE 6 or a lower browser, you will now be asked to upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer. It’s not that my site does breaks in IE 6 but because IE6 time is up. I am not asking you to upgrade to browsers other than IE but to a newer IE which is easy to upgrade to, works better and displays lots of sites and is easier to work for me as a webmaster.
Here is the screenshot of what will you see when you open site in IE6:
If you are using IE 6, probably you would have noticed many sites asking you to upgrade including YouTube, Orkut and Facebook. Recently the movement to kill IE 6 has speeded with the launch of IE6nomore – an initiative by Weebly. It is providing with a code which will ask users to upgrade to Firefox, IE 8, Chrome or Safari( left Opera – too bad). There are many other sites who are pushing hard to kill IE 6 which include:
- IE6nomore – is the latest initiative asking users to upgrade to IE6 though makes no mention of Opera as suggested upgrades.
- IE Death March – is a blog which tells you a lot about shortcomings of IE 6 and advantages of upgrading.
- Bring Down IE6 – is another site mentioning about evils of IE6.
- Pushup – this one is not IE6 specific but is a site which asks users to upgrade their browsers. Supports IE6, Firefox 2, Safari 2 and Opera 9.5.
- Browser-Update – is a site same as Pushup but instead of providing links to users to browser download sites, points towards its own customised page which something I don’t like.
- Browser Upgrade – is another site which asks users to upgrade to Firefox 3 preferably and provides tools too. It also mentions about Opera, Safari and Google Chrome.
- Vincent’s Blog post – His blog post provides a tool and a WordPress plugin to upgrade IE 6 to IE8 or other browsers.
- IE6 Update – Is a specific IE6 site asking users to upgrade to IE8 only. They don’t support options for other browsers since according to them a user on IE would like to upgrade to IE only. I use this tool on NSpeaks
- IE6 Upgrade Warning – is a Google Code project providing with a script which asks users to upgrade from IE6. It supports all major browsers as options for upgrade.
- Sevenup – is the most unusual site which provides tool to upgrade both IE6 and IE7. Not only it provides upgrade options but lists the reasons to upgrade via a Light box effect window.
Above are some of the sites. I may have missed few too. So when are you planning to kill IE6 on your website?
And by the way if you have already killed IE6 on your website, do add your site’s name at I dropped IE6. And finally Microsoft is not going to drop support for IE6 anytime soon.
I hate IE. i think windows have to stop supporting ie6 at network level..
Last month I had 30% of the users visiting my site using the IE6.0.
I am using one now, just to see how horrible it is to browse with this pos.
This is a sad fact.
I can not agree more!!!! IE6 has been such a thorn in the side for so long. Anybody going to miss it? (just kidding – stop throwing things at me)
I ‘killed’ IE6 long time ago. Now with Firefox.
I think the other sites are doing a fine job so far and it’d be a waste of my time. At some point IE6 will die, though it may be at the point when the users themselves pass away (assuming that older people are the ones using it).
At some point IE6 will die, though it may be at the point when the users themselves pass away (assuming that older people are the ones using it). My browser of choice is Opera 10, it’s perfect for any web developer with live source editing and built in developer toolsI can see many companies still using IE6, as it requires some effort to upgrade all the PCs. The more employees a company has, the larger the task.
I killed IE6 a long time ago. Exclusivly use firefox now cant remember the last time i used IE
I haven’t bothered to “kill IE6″, I think the other sites are doing a fine job so far and it’d be a waste of my time. At some point IE6 will die, though it may be at the point when the users themselves pass away (assuming that older people are the ones using it). My browser of choice is Opera 10, it’s perfect for any web developer with live source editing and built in developer tools
Anyway, I don’t think IE6 will last that much longer, it’s pointless to jump in now as the “fight” is almost over
Still about 24% of users hitting my site with IE6.0.
My personal preference is FireFox (with Ubuntu) on all my systems.
However I expect there will be many people using XP with IE6.0 for a long time, is it not true that you need XP to be validated to upgrade to IE8.0. I am sure there are a large number of non-validated XP systems out there….