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"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!"
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.
I love it!
Example of message: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6305769/
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.
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. Example of message: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6305769/ 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.…
It's reasonable to expect that your users will stay, and the browser repartition will follow the same curves it did before.
I was finding it hilarious until I got to: "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!" Perhaps it's because I'm British (we Brits can be a little particular about humour, especially irony), but I don't t…
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. Example of message: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6305769/ 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.…
I'm not sure it really will change anything. The assumption is that people with IE6 chose it and can change it which is often not the case (corporate users with a strict IE6 policy notably). It's reasonable to expect that your users will stay, and the browser repartition will follow the same curves it did before.
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. Example of message: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6305769/ 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.…
The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010. A site from the geeks at Pingdom. it's running a lot longer than it was meant to be. Just like IE6
I guess they just didn't remove the conflicting text in their footer.
I was finding it hilarious until I got to: "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!" Perhaps it's because I'm British (we Brits can be a little particular about humour, especially irony), but I don't t…
I'd agree but reading this comment thread shows a lot of people don't get that it is a joke.