Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands

Esther Schindler writes "It's easy for techies to enumerate the reasons that Internet Explorer 6 should die. Although the percentage of users who use IE6 has dropped to about 12%, many web developers are forced to make sure their websites work with the ancient browser (which presents additional problems, such as keeping their companies from upgrading to newer versions of Windows). But rather than indulge in an emotional rant, in 'Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out Of Their Cold Dead Hands,' I set about to find out why the companies that remain standardized on IE6 haven't upgraded (never mind to what). In short: user and business-owner ignorance and/or disinterest in new technology; being stuck with a critical business app that relies on IE6; finding a budget to update internal IE6 apps that will work the same as they used to; and keeping users away from newer Web 2.0 sites."

Comments

Re:Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out of Their Cold Dead Ha

[jisatsusha]

You clearly haven't seen the sort of people who run these companies.

Chrome engine and IE6 interface

[Anonymous Coward]

It's like puking on a pile of shit!

Re:This is news?

[Grand Facade]

No one ever gets fired for buying IBM....

Re:This is news?

[shirai]

I think you'll like this song. It's about the problems MSIE developers have because of the lock in:

IE is being mean to me song

Full Disclosure: One of my employees, Scott, wrote this song (and I recorded it). The inspiration came from one of our dev teams that was constantly complaining about the problems the browser gave them.