Help killInternet Explorer 6

Jim Hoskins and Nick Pettit

Help killInternet Explorer 6

General consensus:Everyone hatesInternet Explorer 6.Even Microsoft doesn’twant people using it.

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Why the hate?• Bad standards support• Bad security• Too costly to develop for anymore

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Who’s using it?• IT departments afraid of change• People that don’t know any better

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There have beennumerous efforts tokill IE6, but most of theseare developer focused.

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Developer focused:Assuming everyoneknows the differencebetween the Internetand their web browser.

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No, really. See for yourself:

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Time to get… evil.

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IE6 Update

www.ie6update.com

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What people are saying…

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@niczar: #ie6update sucks hard, it should point to mozilla.com, not microsoft.com

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@kevinburg: @Done21 you're doing God's work. #ie6update #idroppedie6

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@rossjones:http://ie6update.com/ - This just seems naughty... I hope it works.

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@xentek: The most deliciously evil thing I've seen in a while:http://ie6update.com/

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@dancharles: @Done21 IE6 should die, honesty should reign. Getting users to dump IE6, great idea!! Tricking them to do so, not so much. #ie6update

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Is it OK to trickusers like this?

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Any success storiesin moving a large

IE6 user base?

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Could this everhappen again?Will we hateFirefox 3 someday?

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