At IntelliSites, we don't generally go around saying that anything “should die.”
Today will be an exception.
Internet Explorer 6 should die.
This early version of the Internet Explorer web browser has a lot of bugs that can cause websites to display incorrectly. For us web design types, that means a lot of extra work to get the websites we create to look good on IE6 users' computers. It's not that we would mind doing the extra work, of course, if IE6 was doing a bang up job browsing the web for its users.
But it's not. In fact, it's a very limited browser, with fewer features and capabilities than other browsers or even newer versions of IE.
Banding Together to Say Goodbye
Luckily, we aren't the only ones battling against this old beast. We have some comrades on social networking sites that have banded together to express their desire for people to stop using the browser. And in Denver, a mock funeral was held in March in an attempt to get web users to get over IE6. Even Microsoft itself acknowledges the advantages of upgrading to a newer version of Internet Explorer.
To our delight, as each month goes by, fewer and fewer web surfers use IE6. But this slow changeover is taking too long. The time has come to put the poor old browser out of its misery once and for all.
If you are one of the holdouts who is still using IE6, just go for it and upgrade. Why use an old browser when there is a snappy new one just waiting for you?
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