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Original Post: The Campaign Against IE6
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There's a web campaign to get IE 6 users to upgrade. It's a browser agnostic campaign; things would be better regardless of which browser they went up to (IE 8, Firefox, etc). Here's the explanation:
Enough is enough. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released in late 2001. For its time, it was a decent browser, but in 2009, it is still in use by a significant portion of the web population, and its time is now up. As any web developer will tell you, working with IE 6 is one of the most difficult and frustrating things they have to deal with on a daily basis, taking up a disproportionate amount of their time. Beyond that, IE 6's support for modern web standards is very lacking, restricting what developers can create and holding the web back.
I certainly feel that pain. And the stats for the websites here show why I feel that pain...
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