Comments on: IE6 update warning: 6 ways to tell your site visitors to upgrade

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:03:01 +0000

currently ie6 its at 2.3% share =D were getting there!

By: Xupei

Xupei — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:54:27 +0000

Savannah, your nice posting above is a perfect example of *why* we need to stop developing for IE6 immediately. I’m not quite sure what I’m more afraid of — the extraordinary number of rendering quirks in this piece of software, or the tone and mindset of its fervent users.

By: Savannah

Savannah — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:12:16 +0000

I am a IE6 user and I have/had a site over at that lilly white ass myspace. I cannot gain access to my page because I run IE6 and they have this blocking page that offers all kinds of other browsers. They know full well that people who are running IE6 cannot upgrade to any of the browsers being offered because most of us are using an older OS. So what if I choose to use IE6 so is that not my choice and my right. I am not making impossible demands on others who choose to use browsers of their own choice. So I am willing to take a chance with security issues so whats it to the people over at myspace or anyone else for that matter. Seems to me sites like myspace are guilty of “conversion” because they have taken control and blocked IE6 users from what is theirs. Who is to say that some pedophile hacker will not hack into our sites at myspace and gain entry to our personal informations and pictures of our innocent children and use them to their perverted and sick advantage. I sincerely hope some hacker hacks into the myspace and shuts the idiots down. Thank you kindly for reading this post.

By: Timmeh

Timmeh — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:39:00 +0000

Death to IE6 (and maybe one day IE). Cant believe the time and frustration that it creates and the users thereof all have the exact same personality…

By: fsevilla

fsevilla — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:19:15 +0000

I agree with DesignGoggles,
it is important to let users know for instance that your site will be best viewed with other browsers, but using your logo will improve their experience a little bit, since it will be more personal and less harming.

Also try to be touchy and say always we recommend instead of YOU NEED TO….

Regards to everyone…

By: IE 6 Liberation Front

IE 6 Liberation Front — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:41:31 +0000

This is a Communique from the IE6LF:

We will never surrender IE6…
as long as there are grannies still using a 1999 Gateway with Windows 98,
as long as there are children in Africa using dialup on an abandoned Dell Optilex from Seattle,
as long as there are mobilizer web sites to strip the CSS out of your web site,

We will carry forth with IE6 SP1 holding onto the faintest hope of SP2.

IE 6 will rise again.

By: DesignGoggles

DesignGoggles — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:31:59 +0000

Try adding your website’s logo to IE6 updated warning… this might make it appear less like a virus.

By: Nick Pettit

Nick Pettit — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:15:47 +0000

Thanks for the mention of IE6Update and all the other efforts to get rid of IE6. Every little bit helps!

Nick Pettit
Co-Founder and Lead Designer
Done21 (creators of ie6update.com)

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:16:30 +0000

Glenn Powell: Why do you care so much about the idiots? Let them rot with their infernal IE6, the browser that takes up 70% of all my development time on every project.

By: Glen Powell

Glen Powell — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:40:16 +0000

Here’s the thing… I put one of these on my site for a little while, and rec’d a pile of emails from people who use IE6.

They all went something like this: ” I tried to access your site, but I got a warning message that I needed to upgrade my computer, my grandson / daughter / son / IT Dept, has told me not to change anything”.

Furthermore they all warned me that they wouldn’t visit again, because they thought I was trying to download a virus with the message.

I just don’t think that IE6 will die! The people who are hanging on at this point just aren’t savvy enough to make the change.