Project “kill IE6″, with IE6 no more!
by Tom on Aug.05, 2009, under Website Design, Website Development
Internet Explorer 6, at one point the worlds most used browser, sadly its still in use today, with a global share of 15-25% of Internet users, if you don’t know why this is bad, then shame on you!
This disaster, which some call a browser; was released on august 27th 2001, eight years old and still stinking up the tubes, many web applications today rely on a browser that is safe and can handle extensive Javascript and CSS, which IE6 can-not…
With its many security faults, crappy rendering, and no built in auto upgrade feature, we as website designers and developers need to help kill this rodent, and so spawns Project “IE6 No More!” a simple but effective way to tell our users they need to upgrade.
And its as simple as copying and pasting some html, check out the code samples over at:
It notifies the user with a simple div container telling them to upgrade, this is how it looks;
There are so many other causes to help one way is a twitter petition:
http://twibbon.com/join/IE6-Must-Die
What are your thoughts on IE6?
September 4th, 2009 on 9:38 pm
I use mozilla firefox. Anyway, thanks for the post.