IE Death March

Timo Ernst says:

Hi there,
I read about your “Anti-ie6-Project” and I think that it’s a really great idea, so that I couldn’t resist to support it

I wrote a little code snipped which redirects all ie6-users to an info-page, which explains them how they should upgrade to a better browser, or at least use the ie8.

Read my blog entry about it and get the code snippet here: http://www.timo-ernst.net/2009/03/stop-the-ie6/

I would be glad, if we could spread this a bit, so that the ie6 will finally vanish from the www.

Greetings from Germany,
-Timo Ernst

Kurt of Kupix says:

I think we are a great family that hates this damned IE6 the worst Microsoft ever developed!

Have a look onto our website “>http://www.kupix.de with IE6 and see the red box on top of the site.

Kind regards from Jülich, Germany
-Kurt Kunig

BigBear Design says:

Great initiative, man! From now on, IE6 will be dead to us.

Luke of Kluster says:

We stopped supporting IE6 a year and a half ago, that decision has saved me days of work and made web development a joy again.
-Luke

Matthias of Rainboxx says:

As a freelancer it’s hard to drop the support of IE6 – not only because that means less money (note that supporting IE6 with timebased billings is a big part ) – customers want IE6 support! But today I said: No way! So since today I dropped IE6 support finally.
-Matthias Dietrich

Fred at the Beehave Forum says:

I’ve been waiting for something like this to happen! IE6 is a daily pain in the … as customers still request compatibility.
So for my private site, I put up the IE6-CSS-DIV, informing don’t-want-to-learn-users about their error

Greetings,
-Fred

Andre of Lenoxweb says:

IE6 no more! -Andre Carneiro

Bryan of Cybersteps says:

Cybersteps site will cease to support IE6 by June 2008. We’re hoping that by then less than 10% of the users will still be using it (and that includes the thousands of developers who use it to check sites). -Bryan Meadan

Microsoft will be releasing IE8 today.

REDMOND, Wash. — March 18, 2009 — Today Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8, the new Web browser that offers the best solution for how people use the Web today. It can be downloaded in 25 languages at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 starting at noon EDT on March 19.

-Microsoft Press Release

For those of you who were waiting for 8, yesterday was the last day of supporting IE6. In a few minutes, you’ll be able to download IE8, though until then they’re still serving the beta.

Claire of Creare Web Design says:

Hey there, all of us at Creare despise Internet explorer. We will gladly join you in the death March!
-Claire