Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s online news outfit reports on a call by an associate editor at Mashable to kill off the sixth version of Internet Explorer in favor of current technology. Ben Parr explains more in his post.
Is IE6 hiding out @YourLibrary?
Luckily it’s been wiped out
Luckily it’s been wiped out at the library where I work though there is still a percentage of visitors to our website that are using IE6. It’s such a persistent little bugger and I can’t count the time I’ve spent pulling hair out trying to get a page to render properly in IE6. In the web development and design world, at least, this move has been a long time coming but there doesn’t seem to be a push from Microsoft to help with the conversion.
It’s interesting this comes up now, Digg has been considering blocking IE6 and recently did a poll on their site to find out why the users accessing their site with IE6 were sticking with that browser. Something like 76% reported back that it was because they simply couldn’t upgrade: they were on work computers without admin access, systems wouldn’t allow it, their machine was running an older version of windows, etc. (Let’s forgive that 76% being on Digg at work, of course, I’m sure they were on their lunch breaks.) http://blog.digg.com/?p=878
NO NEW IE FOR YOU!!
at work we had ie7 and were all just as happy as could be – until we were forced into “updating” to the same system as our parent company in germany –
because one of their techs had written a program that could not operate under anything but ie6 (how brilliant, right? as if explorer is NEVER updated!!) so now we all have to suffer through it –