The Life, Times (and Death?) of Internet Explorer 6 (Comic Strip)
In recent years Internet Explorer 6 has become the browser web designers love to hate. Security issues, JavaScript errors and inexplicable CSS rendering quirks have made it the brunt of many jokes. With IE6 in its twilight and big companies like Google dropping support, it seems like a good time to take a fond look back at our old foe. In this post we’re looking at what Internet Explorer 6 used to be and why its image changed over the years. You can also see the comic in a larger version.
Do we need to review our projects in Internet Explorer 6? Can we stop supporting IE6? If not, how do we handle those users who are still using IE6? And if yes, how can we prompt IE6 users to upgrade? Or how do we convince those who don’t allow their employees to get rid of the legacy browser to upgrade? What do you think? We are looking forward to your opinions in the comments to this post!
Kevin Chapelier
February 12th, 2010 6:12 amThere are so many blogs publishing visceral articles about “it”, this insightful and rational comic is pretty refreshing. I also like how it doesn’t bring down the holy hammer of Judgment on the poor IE6 users. (writing that using Opera 10.10)
Jesse
February 12th, 2010 6:19 amDid I miss something? “Release in 2001 IE6…”, then in the next pane “Throughout the 90′s Netscape and IE6 fought for market share.” Otherwise great, but I can’t seem to get past that; have a feeling I’m just missing something though.
Sal
February 12th, 2010 8:24 pmsaw that too and it bothered me enough to stop reading it.
Stu
February 12th, 2010 6:28 amIt’s a shame when politics leak into such a great blog. I may have been in hibernation, but I was under the impression that jokes about our President were so played out that anyone with any class or couth would keep their opinions to themselves at this point unless they were engaged in a relevant conversation and asked for their take on such a topic. I think sticking to design would be a better choice in the future. Politics are messy and nobody wants to see that crap when they come to a site that’s a fun to read as this. If I wanted to read Bush-bashing I’d go to CNN.com. Sure, it’s cartoon, but let’s grow up a little guys. Thanks for letting me put in my 2 cents ;) Have a good one!
Dharmesh Nakum
February 12th, 2010 6:40 amGood work on IE6′s comic strip, Brad, U r good illustration artist, Thanks for this affort
Raf
February 12th, 2010 6:45 amI dont know what the big deal about IE6 is. I use it all the time and everything always looks fine to me.
Collussus
February 12th, 2010 6:49 amMostly because most of us develop a 2nd css file for all the websites especially for IE6. However, have fun living in the past. CSS3 will not be available for you.
Chris
February 16th, 2010 12:36 amJust don’t let Raf fool you …
But he has a good point: Most of the people using IE6 will think “Hey, everything looks fine. Why should I upgrade to another browser?” Well, many of these people won`t even know what IE6 or a browser is … So everything has two sides. One one side it`s the achievement of us webdesigners, that so many sites are still usable in older browsers – which is a good thing. But on the other side, like I said before, why should people upgrade when everything looks fine? And that’s a very bad thing. It’s a damn vicious circle!
Raf
February 12th, 2010 7:01 amI dont know but I just find IE to be easy to design for. I do it in tables an avoid styles sheet because it can cause ie 6 to look pretty bad… so im fine with ie6 is what i mean.
Collussus
February 12th, 2010 8:04 amWhat are you planning to do when the next version of HTML comes out? Tables will be entirely removed.
Agustin Amenabar
February 12th, 2010 8:15 pmthat is so not true, tables ARE useful
Collussus
February 13th, 2010 1:28 amDoesn’t change the fact that they’re being removed.
Raf
February 14th, 2010 1:53 pmCollusus doesnt know really about web it sounds.
Collussus
February 15th, 2010 1:53 amIt sounds like you don’t know anything about the coming updates of the web.
Raf
February 15th, 2010 8:41 amIt is OK… We work with what we are comfortable with. Give me the DreamWeave and Im good to go…that is all i need to know. I am good with it.. you probably cannot even use that is sounds heh.
Modermo
February 12th, 2010 7:04 amie6 really has to die.
Come on, lets not preserve its already expired life any longer.
Barry McGee
February 12th, 2010 7:06 amNice way to explain to non-techy people about IE6, many thanks
Joseph Sims
February 12th, 2010 7:36 amWhat TEH? I like the old fafebook better. How do I login to my farmville? !!!!!111
Daniel Buchner
February 12th, 2010 7:57 amYeah, gee golly, it sure is nice to have Bush out of office huh! Obama has done us a solid by replacing that chart with a new, multi-purpose one with exactly the opposite curve and a new name: The Inflation–National-Debt–Broken-Promises Chart!
Yesss! I love stagflation and interest on a national debt that is soon going to exceed our entire yearly GDP! You Demz sure iz smartz!
TNk
February 12th, 2010 8:26 amNice comic and very well explained the history of facts :)
Scott Brown
February 12th, 2010 8:32 am16% of my company’s website visitors so far this year use IE6 so I’ve got no choice other than to support it. I don’t like it, it makes things trickier, but if you design with it in mind from the very beginning it’s not hard to deal with. You’ve just got to know how to code and let the site degrade nicely for lesser browsers if you choose to add any kind of advanced design or functionality.
I read a comment from Adam S above who said that if you don’t agree that it’s a web designers’ nightmare then you’re not a very good designer. I take exception to that as I disagree and would like to think that I’m at least a little bit better than ‘not a very good designer’. As I said, you have to design with it in mind. If you go all out adding loads of CSS2 and CSS3 to everything then you’re not considering your users – that’s what makes you ‘not a very good’ designer. Usability and content are more important than design every time, I’m afraid to say.
People use IE6. People will continue to use IE6. I don’t and I don’t know why people with a choice do, but they do and we have to work with it. As many other people have said (though mainly about the political aspect of the comic) “get over it”, and consider your users, not yourselves.
Sara Reffler
February 12th, 2010 9:05 amThanks Brad for a very classy way to express the growing dissonance between designers and IE6. Another well-done comic. Bravo!
Hater
February 12th, 2010 9:24 amBush joke. Super topical.
Norke
February 12th, 2010 9:58 am@Ed… i like your way to spend time on internet, answering every comment that you like or not… i mean… it’s a comic… i can’t see the anti-ie argument and other crap you say. Please don’t answer. I really dont’ care.
beeb
February 12th, 2010 10:01 amI’m currently using the ie6update javascript on some of my websites. I hope this will help getting rid of this oldie !
http://ie6update.com/
Steve Jensen
February 12th, 2010 10:44 amYou lost me and all my respect when you took your little political turn about.
Score One for “Smashing Magazine” Brand Damage.
Editors — You should be very careful with your management of the Smashing brand. Until today we had a great perception of Smashing in our studio.
Now the brand just feels ‘dirty.’
Clicking on the Smashing Daily Bookmark will never be the same experience.
Ryan Glover
February 12th, 2010 11:07 amI’m all for developing across all browsers, but IE6 is like dragging a dead horse around. It’s time not only for developers, but Microsoft, to actively engage users to upgrade to the current version. One of my favorite dev-side approaches at this is from http://www.carrotcreative.com. If you’re in IE6, they have a great javascript pop-up that explains why IE6 is bad and how to upgrade.
adam
February 12th, 2010 11:18 amsee ya ie6!!! that browser has casued me many painful discussions with clients
Alyssa Roll
February 12th, 2010 11:21 amFirst off, very entertaining!
Secondly, why can’t all history books be written like this? It’d make history much more fun, and would probably benefit me a lot. Haha
I personally thought the Bush joke added some individuality to the post and found it humorous just because it was a clever way to add some “bigger picture” to the timeline of when all this IE6 IE7 stuff was happening.
Grefix
February 13th, 2010 6:05 amNot to mention that Bush jokes are old and IE6 is old.
And we should get rid of them both.
David
February 12th, 2010 11:22 amScrew Internet Explorer in general. Fin.
Jacob H
February 12th, 2010 11:42 amso is the stubble on the little “e” supposed to be his beard or his pubes?
Alpesh Darji
February 12th, 2010 12:11 pmBrad, nice way to educate people. Love it.
bob ama
February 12th, 2010 12:36 pmWhy does the guy telling the story have a tag-nut at the bottom of his head?
Rod
February 12th, 2010 1:30 pmBurn IE6 burn!
astroot
February 12th, 2010 1:48 pmIE6 and Bush jokes. Yawn. Don’t we have anything better to do? If anyone who’s reading SM is using IE6, it’s because they can’t upgrade, not because they want to use IE6 or don’t know any better.
Alex C.
February 12th, 2010 2:11 pmOne “comic” strip drawing related question,
is IE’s hair a beard or his pubic hair? :p
kakara
February 12th, 2010 2:59 pmIE6 is already dead. We all must forget about it and let it go… to hell!!! Otherwise, it will stay here in earth… like a poltergeist …. forever…..
arnold
February 12th, 2010 3:16 pmwow its andy clarke lol ..this comic strip..is amazing…
dont know what other saying but this is good man…..
im not designing for IE6 , I force them to upgrade their browsers
Mafaz
February 12th, 2010 7:55 pmGr8 comic mate. This question has been a major issue with all web designers, from should you have hacks to disclaimers on best viewed on claims.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t give the non-techie reasons to upgrade to firefox or opera. @Tai, i wouldn’t send this to my clients because you’ll probably have to spend more time explaining the comic than why IE6 sucks!
Maybe we can look forward to MS providing Firefox and Chrome options with the newer releases of Windows.
Michael
February 12th, 2010 10:48 pmTomorrow we’re launching a new business, selling jewelry online. We’ve had to drastically change our initial design based on the results of our tests on IE6.
Why bother? Because we’re in Japan, where IE utterly dominates the market, and where IE6 still “enjoys” a more than 50% market share. The first two users in your diagrams are the reason for the apparent popularity of IE6: Japanese corporations can’t be bothered to upgrade, and many Japanese home users don’t care about the software they use.
You can’t design away from IE6 in Japan, end of story.
Henri Guilloteau
February 13th, 2010 12:44 amWow, excellent work mate, thanks very much.
@Smashing Mag: you are not saying “Die IE6, die”? Well, I’ll say it on your behalf looool
ski11fu
February 13th, 2010 1:31 amIt’s funny. I see so many people here bashing ie6. The comic does a good job but i mean really, Without ie would any of you designers even have a job today. Ie pretty much opened up the internet. Mostly all your users were once on some version of ie and windows.
Interestingly, on a recent site i designed, there were the standard workarounds for ie7, 6 and 5 and one for opera 9 and firefox 2
My point is all browsers suck in some way. All of them. Whining and complaining about 1 particular browser… you’re just lazy, over paid. How can you call yourself a designer/developer.
You’re getting paid to DO A JOB.
The nerve of some of you guys. If I was a one of your clients i would sue.
Touchnova
February 13th, 2010 1:48 amGreat post, but your jab at Pres. Bush is as comical as this little IE6 tale of yours. Checked Obamski’s approval lately? Greatest first year drop in the history of the US, chachi. Tact is knowing when to keep your personal politics to yourself…
Liam J Moore
February 13th, 2010 4:04 amI thought this was a really relaxed way of explaining the whole fiasco that was IE6. Bring on more articles like this. It’s informative, funny in the right parts and lots of room for further topics.
Jake
February 13th, 2010 5:52 amI don’t develop for IE 6 anymore. In tech dog years, it was my great grand parents browser. I do (however) look at my clients analytics to see how prevalent IE6 users are on their sites. So far, it has been around 12% or less. IE8 has quickly become the top choice lately in the IE category. A line has to be drawn in the sand. I applaud 37 signals for targeting the majority of their users, versus watering their experience down for the minority.
alan vitek
February 13th, 2010 10:38 amjake,
you are definitely right on how you go about it. in the end, regardless of argument, it all comes down to your audience. if your demographic doesn’t use IE, then dont worry about designing for it. checking the analytics is a great case by case strategy!
Jon
February 13th, 2010 7:45 amIn my company we’ve pretty much stopped supporting IE6 as standard now. Only for special requests (usually public sector clients in the UK) and we’re starting to charge for it. This has obviously ruffled a few feathers, but it has also made clients consider the implications of operating such old technology. We’ve also had some successes in helping smaller clients upgrade or start using Firefox or Chrome.
Ram
February 13th, 2010 8:09 amNice work. Really I enjoyed reading. :)
David Ingledow
February 13th, 2010 8:27 amI really enjoyed reading that! I’ve currently got a javascript feature on my site that tells the user that they have to upgrade if they are using IE6 – I really don’t know why a lot of companies don’t upgrade – it’s very annoying!!!!!!!
Michael
February 13th, 2010 9:37 amWe took the cue from 37Signals (at my ‘corporate’ workplace where I manage all the Web sites) and I laid out the cost-benefit/ROI analysis for what would be required to support IE6 for another year or two vs. abandoning support for it specifically, focusing on the benefits of forward-compatible design and implementation. If we behaved like an eight-year old company, we would be viewed as one. I got no push-back.
Companies are wasting staff time and precious resources supporting technology that is more than EIGHT YEARS OLD. In Internet time, that’s outrageous. Although many of our Web visitors (large government organizations, educational institutions) still use IE6 (about 25%), I made a strong case for letting them just deal with it. We’re moving FORWARD, with or without them. We’re lucky, however, in that we don’t rely on these particular users for revenue, and the real reason they haven’t upgraded is that they’re organizationally lazy. Not a good enough justification for us to spend extra money now (and later) to give them a perfect Web site experience when the majority of our users–and revenue base–have a faster adaptation rate to new technology. We must be out in FRONT of change rather than lagging behind.
Jethro
February 13th, 2010 9:47 amI add about $30% to the project if a client wants a web page optimized for IE6. Most now don’t. In fact in the last year the Silicon Valley start-ups that I worked for said don’t bother coding for IE6 – so at least for those kinds of clients things are moving in the right direction.
zimba
February 13th, 2010 9:52 amgood-bye IE6, we will miss you…
doofuss
February 13th, 2010 11:29 amThis comic was unduly kind to IE6. It should have had had a panel with IE6 eating babies, or kicking a puppy. IE6 provides so much comedic material and I feel it was under utilized.
Parker
February 13th, 2010 3:03 pmFrom the times of Mosaic to the actual “Browser Wars”… the story of IE6 is just one of many. I liked it, back then … in the ancient times of table-layouts ;) It was pretty fast, though.
Still, it’s pain in the a** for designers. I need more time for making a site looking good in IE6 and my customers have to pay for my time. And if these are companies, as they usually are, they have to get their money from their customers. Maybe a clever economy-student figures out one day, how much national economic damage IE6 causes today.
By the way, I like the comic. Thank you very much, Brad!
Samir Bhimbha
February 13th, 2010 8:35 pmIE6 is a default browser of Windows-XP operating system. Till many users are using windows-xp OS. So IE6 will dead while dead win-xp os as my point of view
tolga
February 14th, 2010 2:29 amWe will say the same things about IE7 and IE8 in two years. Microsoft has to be release an updateable browser like FF. IE6 is biggest fail of the software history!
Fernando
February 14th, 2010 2:50 amAwful!
Not funny at all, what’s the point of making a comic of it is it has no emotional relief?
Evan Smith
February 14th, 2010 7:38 amI work in a b2b industry serving over 100 corporate e-commerce sites. There is a huge percentage of clients that still use IE6. While we will make sure that IE6 users can still use the site functionally, we no longer guarantee a consistent layout/design for them. It just doesn’t make sense to support an outdated and vulnerable browser. I’ve convinces a few companies to make the switch. If you’re in the industry and in a position to convince someone about updating their browsers, do it.
Jurica
February 14th, 2010 11:31 amExcellent comic ;)
I do not optimize sites for IE6 anymore…
Instead I have script that warn users to upgrade their browser, or to use some other browser.
So… die ie6, die ;)
Lilian
February 14th, 2010 4:10 pmI still need IE because for some reason the wma files only play right with IE and not in Firefox even with plugins.
but..i love Opera.
Manet
February 14th, 2010 5:08 pmThough, web wouldn’t somewhat grew without IE6 evolution.
Having said that, I still have to agree that it has been too long since released of IE6 and I fully support the retirement of IE6.
IE8 is great but still not as fast as Firefox 3.
Safari is good but not as flexible as Firefox.
Geko has really changed the web experience (can I say forever?).
Da*n! “Who moved my cheese?”
drlovecat
February 14th, 2010 8:26 pmie = internet explosion
Joz
February 14th, 2010 10:19 pmnice! your site’s fab too!
Wouter Kirstein
February 14th, 2010 11:37 pmWhat designers must do in rehab…
Tasos
February 15th, 2010 12:20 amie6 = internet evolution (NOT)
ie6 = please enable your upgrade options.
I think it’s the right time to wave off ie6 it served its time well
Milan
February 15th, 2010 12:54 amNice summary, thnx :)
Kasun Rajapaksha
February 15th, 2010 12:56 amExcellent comic. My opinion is we should not cater IE 6. Then the IE 6 users will upgrade their browsers. Until we do cater IE 6, its lazy users want upgrade their browsers.
Chris
February 15th, 2010 1:18 amI think the question, if you still support IE6, should depend on your audience. That means, first you should look at your stats, how many users still use this browser. If the percentage is only a low one, like under 2 or 3 %, it should be ok to drop support for it. But I think many websites out there still have a much higher share at IE6-users. And no matter how big your website is, you can’t afford to loose customers by not supporting the tool they use to view your site. If the differences are only minor there should be no problem, but if you use advanced CSS3-selectors and stuff like this that practically render the website unusable in older browser there is no way around and it’s your job as a web designer to take care that everybody can view the site you designed. IE6-users who don`t have the ability to upgrade will thank you!
By the way, nice comic strip!
dewindle
February 15th, 2010 11:14 amI don’t remember there being a time when we didn’t hate IE6. It was better than IE5, which could download, install, configure and run a virus without a single message, but it was still a miserable ad ware boat, and without it, there wouldn’t be so much malware to begin with. We didn’t have a choice, because flash and java were in their infancy, and Opera and Netscape, while vastly superior, couldn’t be depended on to display pages correctly unless the page was designed for them. Millions of web pages began with a phrase telling you what browser and version to view it with. Today, we have Firefox and Chrome, both free and independent, both equally capable without the need for dual support from the web designer. Truly a delightful change. I don’t even use the IE adapter in Firefox any more, it simply isn’t needed – usually. Now if only my work computers could upgrade past IE6..
Jose Fernandez
February 15th, 2010 11:21 amI really enjoyed the strip… but Safari wasn’t out for Windows until 2008.
That Guy John
February 15th, 2010 11:53 amIMO, if developers simply just stop catering to the IE6 users, they will have no choice but to upgrade. I don’t even check compatibility with IE6 when I am working. The most work I do is use the reset from the 960.gs for compatibility. If visitors aren’t staying up to date.. well tough. If they aren’t keeping up with IE I could only imagine what other security holes they have in there system.
Enk.
February 15th, 2010 12:00 pmGreat Comic.. I’ve always loved reading Brad Colbow comics.
Btw, is there something wrong with the Gravatars? I don’t see them working well, maybe very slow loading!
Tom
February 15th, 2010 3:41 pmHow did ie6 battle netscape back in the 90s?? (panel 7) Also, stagnant is not a verb. You can’t let a browser stagnant, but you can let it stagnate. (panel 8)
ertghj
February 15th, 2010 11:34 pmWe always like to be on the side thats winning, we call that beeing independent and cool
Rahul
February 16th, 2010 12:58 amAmazing article….. IE6 very very painful for IT industries and specially for the designers.
brett
February 16th, 2010 6:36 amIE6 should see the its demise…
The start should be made from cybercafes….All cyber cafe’s should install Mozilla firefox 3 and above and place its shortcut on the desktop centered on screen…..
Even organizations following open source tech should promote mozilla…
Developers and designers already know the benefits of Gecko…whats to be done is increase awareness that People Have a Choice and thats our responsiblilty….place a line below ur email signature….(i use mozilla ) atleast thats what we all can do the next time we forward our mails.
thanks.
nathan suker
February 16th, 2010 6:45 amI want that part of my life back!
Also i do use IE6 its all good for porno websites!
Martin Barker
February 16th, 2010 7:39 amEvery on that uses IE6 Company’s and alike
Maybe they have it for Active X Programs that use IE6 and such fine then they need it but just
install chrome frame
That way web sites can stop developing for it put 1 line of code and force it to use Chrome Frame so the web can evolve properly and then the applications or such that use it can still show new and old site without a problem
Google has something to do with most web systems whether its just analytical or Google Apps, so why not use Chrome Frame in all IE and make the web a better place
Sheamus
February 16th, 2010 2:58 pmThis is is hilarious :D
But in all honesty, people need to fuckin’ move on. It’s been almost 10 years. It’s time we all stopped supporting IE6 and let the stragglers suffer.
PeterQuinn
February 16th, 2010 3:27 pmLets get rid of this atrocity.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=482468220647&ref=mf
John James
February 16th, 2010 7:08 pmthis is som ov my cooding that i hav dun. it tok mee abot 3 months to do
#mainleft {
width:33%;
float:left;
background:#fff;
padding-bottom:10px;
}
#maincenter {
width:34%;
float:left;
background:green;
padding-bottom:10px;
}
#mainright {
width:33%;
float:left;
background:#fff;
padding-bottom:10px;
}
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John Davidson
February 16th, 2010 7:11 pmNicely done, but may i ask why you have so many “Lines of text”
john jack
February 24th, 2010 6:43 pmno you mai not ask
Harka Lopchan
February 16th, 2010 8:25 pmReally nice comic, love it.
hello
February 16th, 2010 9:17 pmi am superman
joe
February 17th, 2010 11:13 ami’d like just to point out that by the ’90 STANDARD ALREADY EXISTED, it was just ie that simply decided not to supported them
aaan you perhaps forgot to mention that ie gained 95% of popularity because it was bundled with the OS
next time please get better documentation
Rich
February 17th, 2010 12:43 pmNice comic, could have done without the political comment however.
sandeep parkhande
February 17th, 2010 8:49 pmThe main problem for the developers is they need to do some extra efforts to support their
websites for ie6. The simple solution for the problem is –
“Charge extra for the ie6 support”
If the client is ready to pay for it then the developers should be more than happy as they
are earning extra money. And the same time update the client about modern browsers and there
features. If the client decides not to support ie6 the developers will double happy.
Everyone should follow this tactics.
cheers!
sandeep parkhande
February 17th, 2010 8:50 pmThe main problem for the developers is they need to do some extra efforts to support their
websites for ie6. The simple solution for the problem is –
“Charge extra for the ie6 support”
If the client is ready to pay for it then the developers should be more than happy as they
are earning extra money. And the same time update the client about modern browsers and there
features. If the client decides not to support ie6 the developers will double happy.
Everyone should follow this tactics.
Bassam Musa
February 18th, 2010 1:51 pmOh yeah.. one of the reasons that i couldn’t upgrade is my computer is really slow! once I have tried to upgrade it I noticed that I cannot work on my PC as usual ,so I installed IE6 again!
Dean Skinner
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Everyone come on WoW Frostmourne Gamename: Zxane
Level 80 Paladin
John James
February 23rd, 2010 5:12 pmHey guies how are you I hav bean working on some coding latly and i thort you could reed it and giv me some ad vicee abot it. it tok me lick 2hrs to make
my first web page
THis is mi phirst web page i hop u lick it
jack mann
February 23rd, 2010 5:36 pmThis is a bit of mi coding. I hav bean coding for abot 1yr now and my dad has bean helping mi. this bit of coding tok me lick 2hrs to doo. I hop u all lick it and enjoi it. if u want i wil let you use some. but its really god so dont copy it all. hop you enjoi it and lick show it to al ur frends :)
this is mi phirst web page
this is a really col web page mi dad helped me doo.
Dean "Zxane" Skinner
February 23rd, 2010 5:39 pmJackk mann you coming to dalaran tavern to hang with my brosss for my 21st bdayy
AWWWYEAHHH GO MEEE
jack mann
February 23rd, 2010 5:41 pmna broo i cant. my mum said i cant go to the compoter becus i was caught talking to this hot night elf chikc and my mum dosnt like me to talk to alience pipple
Dean "Zxane" Skinner
February 23rd, 2010 5:42 pmwhy not now only 1 dude is cominggg
you uber pwnage newbz0r
jack mann
February 23rd, 2010 5:44 pmohh i c how it is. you think ur so cool with your nax weps and stuff but you cant even down lich king without like wiping and i dont even pop trinkets like ever
WERE NOT FRENDS ANY MAW
Dean "Zxane" Skinner
February 23rd, 2010 5:45 pmOMFG you just got me banned for swearing on WOW
IM SO UBER angry!
knityster
February 23rd, 2010 7:17 pmI think IE6 is faster then IE7 even IE8
Dean "Zxane" Skinner
February 24th, 2010 6:44 pmyo forum gurus
Deepu
February 25th, 2010 5:10 amIE6 is a pain in the rear. it gives me a headache when i am designing pages.
steve
February 25th, 2010 12:52 pmwhat should we do with our time without optimizing for the ie6? xD
Ricardo
February 25th, 2010 4:53 pmNice comic.
It reminded me of the style of Scott McCloud.
Rudy
February 25th, 2010 11:22 pmThis IE6 thing is just getting boring guys. for gods sake get over it. I hardly know anyone who still has IE6 on his computer. even if they do, they don’t know any better. also this IE6 bullshit thing was the reason I stopped using Stumbleupon. every idiot nerd who wanted to be funny made a page about it and submitted it to stumbleupon. jesus, get over it already.
Jake
February 27th, 2010 2:26 pmI worked for a company and we were not allowed to upgrade to IE7 or use any other browser other than IE6. One person was actually fired for using IE7 (I’m not kidding). I had circumvented the system and was using firefox but only about a month later I came to find the IT team had blocked all the firefox ports and it no longer would connect. I confronted managers about this many times and the only reason I got was “IE6 is tried and true”. yeah…………….
bobo
February 28th, 2010 2:06 pmyo
sajitha
March 4th, 2010 1:37 amBeing a web developer and a computer user, I hate IE 6….. Let it die……..
omfgwebdesign
March 16th, 2010 9:42 amLOL!
My work is soooo behind the curve we still run IE6 exclusively.
Yay for me!
omfgwebdesign.blogspot.com
omfgwebculture
March 16th, 2010 9:44 amAh, I think I’m gonna write about the fun times of IE6 from a consumer point of view.
omfgwebculture.blogspot.com
richarduie
March 19th, 2010 3:39 amGreat conclusion – choose and know why you chose.
I develop for small and medium businesses. Most of “my” sites will be visited by a pretty non-technoid cross-section of surfers in which IE6 has too large a share for me to ignore, if I am to be properly protective of my clients’ interests.
Soon as IE6′s general market share drops below 5%, I’ll pop a cork, and the rejoicing will be great. ‘Til then, I’ll follow your rule, choosing to support IE6 and knowing why I choose to do so.
Diamond Barrel
March 23rd, 2010 1:19 pmSorry guys but IE is a huge shame is a different guy of the class doesn’t support a lot things and be sure the is the worst browers but how was a gif with windows nobody say anything about it.
short life for you IExplorer!
John Pitchers
April 20th, 2010 6:08 amDude! Great job.
Make IE6 history
April 26th, 2010 3:40 pmi love the interpretations! :D
I have to disagree on the “every project is different”-argument, because IE6 is a dead end no matter how one sees it. Most people who still use IE6 (or companies forcing their employees to use it) are doing so either because they don’t care, because of a uninformed descision, or out of lazyness. We as webdesigners make it easy for people not to care, not to educate themself, and not update their systems so they can support a more recent or another webbrowser. That has to stop, and when it do the web will become a little safer for those who don’t know any better because when the majority of websites are looking “weird” in their crappy browser they will eventually be forced to care and educate themself.
Make IE6 history.