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The worst part of this is the comparison with other browsers. http://saveie6.com/compare.php This is just silly thing people can think of.
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I'd agree but reading this comment thread shows a lot of people don't get that it is a joke.
Which really makes it that much more funny.
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.
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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.
Well, this is 2011. That sort of policy just isn't in application anymore. Because companies with policies are companies with upgrade policies as well.
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Well, this is 2011. That sort of policy just isn't in application anymore. Because companies with policies are companies with upgrade policies as well.
Sadly, my current client does have a strict IE6 policy in place. Big inertia in some industries (hospitals and pharmaceutical industry in this case).
Make a website (IE6 Compatible, of course) that explains in tedious detail all the reasons a corporation should upgrade. There are real security issues that they should care about. Put this in the form of a white paper, but you get to put a few ads for corporate IT stuff in the corner.
Have a prominent "mail this to my IT administrator" link, that people can click, which mails a link to the page to an email address provided by the user. Use a mailto: link, so the email comes from inside the network, as they're going to get a lot of these, and we don't want them blocking them.
In the footer, have a link to your "developer page" with the text, "Help us educate corporate IT to IE6 security risks". On that developer page, have some javascript that people can cut and paste into their websites that senses when a browser is IE6, and if so, puts up a warning box with a link to the white paper page.
Now you have a potentially viral spread. You have an easy way for developers to alert their users to their browsers vulnerabilities, and do it in a way that leads those users on a path that might actually actuate change, which is, alerting their IT people. When it gets to the IT people, you have made a strong technical case that they can use to go to their bosses and get things done.
Plus, you might get a few clicks from IT guys on your ads to pay for your server space.