[WebPub] Norwegian Websites Declare War on IE 6

[Lisa C. Mayer]

Norwegian Websites Declare War on IE 6
Published: April 14th, 2009
http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/04/norwegian-websites-declare-war-on-ie-6/

Several large websites in Norway have launched an advocacy campaign  
urging Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 users to upgrade their outdated  
web browsers, according to Wired Epicenter. I love this explaination  
of why its so disliked:

     IE 6, released in 2001, is the scourge of web programmers, user- 
experience designers and technical-support staff alike. The browser is  
stacked with quirks that cause web pages to render differently from  
all other browsers, and special considerations must be taken by web  
builders to accommodate users running IE 6.

     Most wish the browser would just go away, eliminating the need to  
continue supporting it. Numbers vary from country to country, but  
somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of the web’s worldwide users are  
still running IE 6 — some because they simply don’t know any better,  
some because they are stuck with whatever software their companies  
install on their machines. Finn.no notes that 17 percent of its users  
are running IE 6. Numbers like that are currently too large for web  
builders to ignore.

More fun, here’s a site that “is all about the campaign to rid the WWW  
of Internet Explorer 6 that has devastated web developers and held  
back the evolution of everything that blocks the tubes for far too  
long. This can not go on any longer! Off with its head!”



Lisa C. Mayer : web & database consultant at MIT- IS&T- DCAD
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