This morning, one of our customers called, to ask why IE6 wasn't supported in our newly developed software application to manage taxi-transfers (airportservice.be)...
IE6 is like a pain-in-the-ass to all webdevelopers, that just doesn't seem to go away. Well, from now on, Agito will start fighting against it, instead of trying to fix it.
http://ie6update.com/ is a brilliant plugin, with a very subtle, but extremely well built suggestion to install a recent browser. This plugin will be included in all of our future websites.
IE6 was launched on August 27, 2001. It's unbelievable that in february 2010, 20% of internet users is still using IE6. IE6 is equivalent to slow loading of pages, high security risks, extremely crappy support for javascript, ...
For our customers... Some figures:
Browser Stats
Tide turns against IE 6 as usage drops
Google announced it's discontinuity to support IE6 in google docs
IE6 Risks
Enough said. Please, upgrade.
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