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IE6 Countdown
Jan. 4th, 2012 05:48 pmThis has to be the most interesting thing that Microsoft have done for a while. Everyone I know in our industry has been hoping for the worldwide use of Internet Explorer 6 (and more generally, Internet Explorer) to reduce to the point where nobody has to support it any more, but now Microsoft themselves seem to be heading a campaign to finally wipe the old version off the face of the earth.
It's been around since last year, but it's recently come up again because its usage dropped low enough for it to be officially declared dead in the Western world. Currently it's at 7.7% worldwide, with the page hopeful to get it down below 1% eventually. Only China now has a significant share of it, with several countries on the brink of passing the 1% mark - America managed it, so there's no reason we can't!
(A note, just in case, because one of the most frustrating things for anyone to say in these conversations is "Why should I change away from Internet Explorer? It works fine". Do you know why it works fine? Because people like me have spent days battering its demented interpretation of everything and anything into shape so that it will at least work somewhat like other browsers that actually make sense.)
It's been around since last year, but it's recently come up again because its usage dropped low enough for it to be officially declared dead in the Western world. Currently it's at 7.7% worldwide, with the page hopeful to get it down below 1% eventually. Only China now has a significant share of it, with several countries on the brink of passing the 1% mark - America managed it, so there's no reason we can't!
(A note, just in case, because one of the most frustrating things for anyone to say in these conversations is "Why should I change away from Internet Explorer? It works fine". Do you know why it works fine? Because people like me have spent days battering its demented interpretation of everything and anything into shape so that it will at least work somewhat like other browsers that actually make sense.)
