The war on IE 6 heats up:Several large websites in Norway have launched an advocacy campaign urging Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 users to upgrade their outdated web browsers.
Leading the charge is Finn.no, an eBay-like site which is apparently the largest site for buying and selling goods in all of Norway (Finn is Norwegian for "Find"). Earlier this week, Finn.no posted a warning on its webpage for visitors running IE 6. The banner, seen at right, urges them to ditch IE 6 and upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.
Dozens of other sites, including the influential tech news website Digi.no, have joined the campaign, but have widened the playing field by suggesting either upgrading to IE 7 or switching to an alternative like Firefox, Safari or, of course, Norway's own Opera browser.
The drive is spreading to other countries. God I hope this catches on. Without going into the details let's just say that IE 6 is a huge problem for web developers and the world would be a much better place without it. I've been doing some traffic analysis on this site lately and the results are as follows:
FireFox is 46.48% of the traffic here, with Safari at 39.31% and all flavors of IE at 9.91%. Then Mozilla Compatible which could be a ton of different things at 3.25%, and everything else below 1% all the way down to PlayStation 3 at 0.03% (WTF?). The roughly 10% of IE users breaks down as follows: IE 7: 60.93%, IE 6: 38.25%, IE 8: 0.55%, and IE 5.01: 0.27%.
So that's about 4% overall on IE 6 (I won't even mention whoever is using 5.01!?!?) Not too bad. I think internet wide it's a little higher though. Most designers already ignore IE 5 (you just have to because that is really the worst software ever written,) but IE 6 is a toss up. If you're really going for a wide audience you can't piss off 5% - 10% of your potential market. If you're just doing a more vanity-ish site than probably you don't care too much. If we can just get IE 6 usage down another couple points we can all safely forget it.
come'on whom is useing 5.0!!
I'm surprised that Safari is so high, but that's just here isn't it?
Yeah, just here. I've turned a bunch of the tree.
The 4 percent is me--we still have IE 6 at w*rk.
I wonder if the .03% playstation is joester. I'll ask him if he ever accidentally logged onto DMT instead of Halo (or whatever it is they do on PS) . Oh wait nevermind..I think he has xbox.
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FireFox is 46.48% of the traffic here, with Safari at 39.31% and all flavors of IE at 9.91%. Then Mozilla Compatible which could be a ton of different things at 3.25%, and everything else below 1% all the way down to PlayStation 3 at 0.03% (WTF?). The roughly 10% of IE users breaks down as follows: IE 7: 60.93%, IE 6: 38.25%, IE 8: 0.55%, and IE 5.01: 0.27%.
So that's about 4% overall on IE 6 (I won't even mention whoever is using 5.01!?!?) Not too bad. I think internet wide it's a little higher though. Most designers already ignore IE 5 (you just have to because that is really the worst software ever written,) but IE 6 is a toss up. If you're really going for a wide audience you can't piss off 5% - 10% of your potential market. If you're just doing a more vanity-ish site than probably you don't care too much. If we can just get IE 6 usage down another couple points we can all safely forget it.
- jim 2-20-2009 2:58 pm
come'on whom is useing 5.0!!
- Skinny 2-20-2009 4:00 pm
I'm surprised that Safari is so high, but that's just here isn't it?
- L.M. 2-20-2009 4:42 pm
Yeah, just here. I've turned a bunch of the tree.
- jim 2-20-2009 4:50 pm
The 4 percent is me--we still have IE 6 at w*rk.
- tom moody 2-20-2009 6:41 pm
I wonder if the .03% playstation is joester. I'll ask him if he ever accidentally logged onto DMT instead of Halo (or whatever it is they do on PS) . Oh wait nevermind..I think he has xbox.
- sally mckay 2-20-2009 11:11 pm