Internet Explorer 6 is Dead–They Had a Funeral and Everything…
It’s true! The scourge of all web developers has died and gone to the fiery furnace where it belongs. If you are using IE6, be aware that you are floating down river on the bones of a dead browser.
IE6 has caused so many headaches for me over the years that about a year ago I simply quit worrying whether or not my blog loaded in it or not. If you are using IE6, you are definitely not seeing this blog as it was meant to be viewed. I have no idea what you’re seeing — like I said — I haven’t tested for IE6 in a long time.
And, it’s not only me, there are plenty of others that gave up on it, including the biggest dog of them all: Google. They phased out IE6 support on March 1st for Google Docs, Google Sites and announced YouTube will discontinue support on March 13th.
Of course, Microsoft, the creator of this horrid monster, hasn’t exactly killed it off yet; they’re keeping it on life support until officially pronouncing it dead in May of 2014 when they will stop support completely.
As a result of Microsoft’s slow hand to pull-the-plug, Ryan Parr and David Stewart have created an IE6 Countdown to Death website complete with a fully functioning countdown timer leading up to the big day.
Personally, even though it’s been dead to me for over a year and Woopra Analytics is reporting only 4% of my visitors are using the specific “IE version 6″ over the past month, I can’t wait ’til this thing is completely non-functional on the internet.
Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado, isn’t waiting. They held a funeral last night (March, 4th) at Forest Room 5, also in Denver. Photos of the event are rolling in as we speak:
If you’re still using IE6, it’s definitely time to upgrade. Aren’t you tired of seeing misaligned web pages, suffering browser crashes and getting infected by web bugs? If you are, just go to the official Internet Explorer 8 web page and upgrade now. Then come back and see what Dead Rooster actually looks like!
Or, if you want to use what I use and recommend to all my readers, download the latest version of Firefox.
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RIPDIAF, Internet Explorer 6. It’s even painful to remember what it looked like. That funeral looks fun, though.By the way, those last two links need to be fixed.
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William McCamment
reply on March 5th, 2010 7:37 pm:
I didn’t even like IE6 when it was new. I think I used Netscape back then. LOL
Thanks for the heads-up on the links. I have no idea how I did that; I fixed them.
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I found you on blogcatalog, I seen this story on Fox, this is funny, the sad part was if I lived near, I would have went just to say I did.
CEO Agent Builder Marketing
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William McCamment
reply on March 12th, 2010 6:00 pm:
If I lived close, I would have went to it too. I thought it was a great idea!
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Oh my god – internet explorer 6 dead? what a pitty!!!! =) It´s time to send some cards announcing it´s death =)
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RIP IE you are dead for me for years, soon Firefox is going to join you because it has so many addons that he doesn’t move. The future so far is after Chrom and Safari.
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I thought the funeral was held uears ago?
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