IE6 no more

Xavier Media® — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:06:23 +0000

3700 people in UK is asking the UK government to replace IE6 as the web browser when people surf on external pages. This will put some pressure on most of the other European countries to start similar campaigns to replace IE6 or use other web browsers when surfing externally. Google has also announced earlier this week that they will remove support for IE6 in Google Docs, Google Sites and Gmail later this year. One of the reasons for these kinds of campaigns are the security issues involved in using old and out-dated web browsers.

On XavierMedia.com about 25% of the users are using a version of Internet Explorer an as much as 30% of them are using IE6. To encourage all the users of IE6 we're adding a text at the top of most of our pages letting them know that they're using an old and out-dated web browser. The users with IE6 will be suggested 4 updated web browsers: Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer 8 and Chrome.

At the same time as we're asking users to upgrade to a newer web browser with much fewer security issues, we will also stop testing our web projects in IE6. This means that if you use IE6 you may or may not be able to use our services in the future.

If you as a web developer, blogger or web site owner also would like to add the same message box asking people with old web browsers to update you can find the code you need at IE6 no more.com. They have codes for several languages like for example English, Spanish and Swedish. Users with new web browsers will of course not have to see the message box at all since it will only show when people with IE6 visit your site.

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