This morning, much like every morning, I wake, prepare for the day, walk my partner to work, get home and read through my emails and RSS subscriptions before I start my working day.
This morning I came across a post from Ryan Stemkoski about How IE 6 is Dead and a comment from that post how Ryan gets 23% and Thomas J Brown gets ~2% of IE 6 visitors. I checked out my statistics and I get 37.7% of my visitors using IE 6.
Top 6 Browsers to visit my Blog.
The top 6 browsers to visit my Blog are IE 5, 6 & 7, Firefox 2 & 3 and Safari.
I can’t believe that IE 6 is kicking around in such high percentages, and worse still is some IE 5 visitors! On a recent website we blocked all support for IE 6 and below, it directed to a splash page with links to download the decent major players. Generally I just let the visitor browse the site as is.
You have an Old Browser - Upgrade
For the first time I loading this blog with this new theme in IE 6 and it does display well, although there is nothing fancy with the design.
http://sheldon.lendrum.co.nz In IE 6
In all – Why oh why?
Why do so many people use these old browsers? Because of lazy IT departments, yes, Because of illegitimate copies of Windows that stop windows updater, I bet. But surely with Safari and Firefox both being free?
Do it for us Developers and upgrade ! Please!
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One Response to “Death to Internet Explorer 6”
Thomas J. Brown 29/01/2009 07:29am
Your statistics are at once surprising, and totally normal. I certainly didn't expect to see IE7 so far down the list and IE6 at the top!