Stop using IE6, please!

 

I was just checking statistics for my site and I was shocked by one particular information: nearly 8% of visitors are still using Internet Explorer 6. This graph represents only users of Internet Explorer, so the biggest part (66.63%) is the latest version of IE, which was expected.

And why was I shocked? Well, I’m writing about latest technologies, about programming, about web … so I thought, that visitors are mostly “geeks” like myself, who always wants the newest technologies, especially if the new one is better and much easier to use. And specially for us programmers is easier to develop stuff.

So I stumbled upon this particular website, called ie6update.com. It’s meant for us, developers, to somehow “force” users of sites to upgrade their old browser. In fact, if you go to this website with IE6, you can see it in action. What it does, it shows IE’s Information bar, with a little help of Java Script, with notice to upgrade your browser. I think it’s cool way of notifying users, but still not forcing them to switch, if they are really (I mean really, really, really) used to that old piece of software.

Join the “fight” and add this to your site, you and million of other developers will appreciate it :)

author: Aleš Rosina | Comments: 0 | Tags: ie6, web