<i>The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010. A site from the geeks at Pingdom.</i><p>it's running a lot longer than it was meant to be. Just like IE6
I was finding it hilarious until I got to:<p><i>"SaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke by the uptime monitoring service Pingdom. Due to the tremendous interest it has received we have decided to keep this site up and running. Thanks everyone for the great feedback and for enjoying the irony!"</i><p>Perhaps it's because I'm British (we Brits can be a little particular about humour, especially irony), but I don't think a joke like that should explicitly identify itself as such.
My favorite bits were:<p>"Get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6" (listed as a goal of the site)<p>"Places Internet icon on desktop (blue e)" (listed as an IE6 feature)<p>"No need to install (it’s there already)" (another feature)<p>"Highly secure (has received lots of security updates)"
> I love how you can only open one tab at a time, thus focusing your efforts. Multi-tab browsing is the devil!<p>Just seeing someone refer to IE6 as "tabbed", albeit single-tabbed, made me realize how far we've come.
I laughed out loud... "You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using opera, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition."
Has anyone tried browsing with IE6 lately? At the time, everything was probably compatible with it.. but my school still uses IE6 and I am finding more and more common web pages are broken by it. At this point, it probably serves more as a content filter than anything.
So IE6 still accounts for about 1 million monthly page views on our site...about 1.5% of the traffic.
Yesterday we took the plunge and decided to display an eyesore of a box on every page on our site if you surf to it with ie6.<p>Example of message: <a href="http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6305769/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6305769/</a><p>Imagine if many sites did this to spur the upgrade process. I'm really curious to see the results of this...will traffic plunge by 1.5% or will the usage of ie6 switch to other browsers. Note: no ie9 upgrade choice.
The worst part of this is the comparison with other browsers.
<a href="http://saveie6.com/compare.php" rel="nofollow">http://saveie6.com/compare.php</a><p>This is just silly thing people can think of.
As far as I can tell there's no reason to get rid of IE6 unless you're going to also eliminate IE 7 and 8. Aside from CSS differences they are largely equivalent. Even IE9 doesn't support websockets or even half the HTML5 features of any other modern browser so for a modern web app you still need to drop IE support anyways.