Comments on: Can Norway Kill IE6?

By: Benny Ginzburg

Benny Ginzburg — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:23:30 +0000

The websites i design are in Hebrew and non technical in most cases, so i get 70%-80% IE users and half of them still use version 6!.
I spend most of my browser debugging time on IE6. IE7 is already much easier for me although it’s not really fully standards compliant, my prayer is to get reed of IE6 as soon as possible.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

By: Roy Andre

Roy Andre — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:43:31 +0000

Milan: I think its good that Microsoft continue to develop browsers. Their IE7 is lightyears ahead of IE6, and the upcoming IE8 will really be based on standards, as they finally have understood the importants of working _with_ the developers, not against us. Its also worth to mention that Microsoft supports these campaigns.

Regarding your 6% IE6-usage I think its higher in general. I think 80% of all WordPress developers run Firefox 3 (the rest run Safari or maybe Chrome).

By: Milan Petrovic

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:23:43 +0000

I run few WordPress development oriented websites and I was recently going through Google Analytics data and I find out that IE6 was used by only 6% of all users, and IE7 by some 9%.

Majority of users used Firefox. And this is good ratio, but since the websites are specialized, so are the users. But the regular users or employees in big companies are either not informed enough to make a change or company prohibts such change, or just plain lazy.

I recently upgraded friends Windows installtion, and I installed Opera as defult browser (previous was IE6). And he couldn’t believe how much better Opera was, and how many things he can do with it now on the internet.

We need more campaigns to show the IE6 user reasons to switch to better browser, and also we need for Microsoft to finally STOP making browsers.

By: Hansson

Hansson — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:00:35 +0000

Haha love the way they explain this to their employees. IT-dept don’t support it YET. Come on…

By: Roy Andre

Roy Andre — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:39:30 +0000

Internet Explorer 6 was released together with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and at that time Microsoft had plenty of possibilities to include the already-established web-standards that were available at that time.

The biggest concern with IE6 however are the number of critical bugs and security flaws that hasnt been fixed by Microsoft yet.

I agree that the super-big companies around the globe might have difficulties upgrading the browser on 25.000 computers to a new version just over the weekend, but if they run an eight year old browser in 2009 then they’ve got nobody to blame when the whole company-infrastructure falls apart because of a 50-lines-of-code rotten script made by an asian computer-rookie.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:37:14 +0000

Yeah I agree. We might not be able to make them change, but we will put a lot of pressure on the companies to do something about their apps.

By: Søren Hugger Møller

Søren Hugger Møller — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:35:50 +0000

You have a good point. There’s no doubt companies using crappy web apps pose a challenge to the “kill IE6″ campaign. But I still think that it is important to get home users who are still on IE6 to upgrade.

And in the long run it might also encourage companies to get their act together and get some decent systems.