IE6 - BAN!

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Google also apparently stopping support as well, I read this morning that IE6 still has close to a 20% share of web browsing :S
 
If only they would outlaw IE6. Will never happen though.

At least IE8 has overtaken IE6 - still not much solace though as thats still dragging everything backward due to lack of HTML5/CSS3 support. Source.
 
The only way that IE6 is going to be ditched for good is if people, such as Google, stop supporting it. And perhaps even going as far as restricting people from accessing content unless they are using a suitable browser.

If all website owners were to remove IE6 support to their content tomorrow I doubt IE6 would last another month.
 
Signed the petition yesterday, although I don't expect it will make much difference. There are too many unsupported websites/web apps that companies and govt agencies rely on.

As a recent example, my mum was trying to do some NHS work courses online, and the site wouldn't work in IE7, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. As she is running Vista, I ended up having to build her an XP virtual machine with IE6, through which she could access the site to sit courses.

Utterly ridiculous.
 
Can someone explain to me why IE6 is still used by all companies on the pc's etc, I get that there is some proprietry apps and software written for it to run on, but I dont get why its forced upon everyone - can someone explain the bigger picture ? Surely IE7/8 can run ie6 websites ? it doesnt make sense, if there all using html ? etc ?
 
At my two local Colleges all their 1000+ Computers still run IE6, they don't have any internal websites/webapplications that only work with IE6 it's just pure laziness from the IT department.
 
swinnie said:
Definitely. Mum, Dad and Step-Dad say IE6 is still used in there workplaces - all different industries - solicitors, warehousing and heating control systems respectively.
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Its lazyness on the IT department.

My workplace still runs Win2000 on their PC's.
 
Ekim said:
The only way that IE6 is going to be ditched for good is if people, such as Google, stop supporting it.
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Indeed, it's ridiculous to try and ban IE6.

Everyone in the industry just needs to stop supporting it, problem solved. If companies continue to use IE6, it's their lose.

Perhaps that's the whole point on this, not to actually win and ban it, but just to create enough of a storm that people stop using it.
 
The few hundred computers at my 6th form are all new ones, designed for Vista and 7, running a rubbished-up version of XP and some stupid RMControl stupid thing thats rubbish, and IE5 or 6(if you're lucky)... the IT department are total fails. Luckily their atempts to block me and the nerds from using Firefox are feutile. They can't even block comand line.
 
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