End IE6 - Persuade your visitors to move to a better, more secure browser
Yes, IE6 was amazing, in 2001 the owners of end6.org proclaim, and yes - they are totally right. They even provide a javascript that you can embed in your page, so that whenever a visitor with IE6 visits your page, the following warning sign appears:
There is another site with exactly the same idea, called savethedevelopers.org that has a more subtle warning which scrolls down at the top-right of the page:
Is it our job to hastle users to upgrade to IE6, you might be asking? Well, yes and no.
It really is the vendor’s job of notifying the user, but since some folk just don’t bother updating their system and probably have a load of trojans and spyware on their machine, there can’t be a lot done about these folk! Until they loose their system completely and have to re-install there isn’t a lot that can be done.
But at least warning people from your own websites could be something to save a few from this lackluster browser – i prefer the first option of getting them to choose a new browser but on some sites where discretion is advised the second option is a better one.
Ok, i’m away to insert this into the site 
2 Comments, Comment or Trackback
Tom Leverenz
I love this.
I agree that developers should have some responsibility of educating viewers of newer technologies. But the majority of the blame has to go to the vendors.
It seems simple that people would want to upgrade anything they have to the newest product but I have a feeling this is never going to go away.
As new technology and techniques are developed, browsers will always fall behind because they will never be able to keep up with the speed and ambition of the masses of developers in the world.
Mar 27th, 2008
JAG
The problem is the big corporates who won’t / cannot upgrade. Too many applications don’t like IE7, no doubt we’ll be on IE8 or Ff3 before they start to accept IE7.
Apr 23rd, 2008
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