Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

[Icarus]

http://ie6countdown.com/

Do what you have to do to get rid of Internet Exploder 6 for good, people. Educate. Uninstall. Convert. Upgrade.
For the love of all that is good in forward-thinking and future-proof web development, let's all banish this godawful incompatible web browser to history.

[louisg]

elinks or bust!!

[Vexorg]

Ironically, the site seems to break on IE8.

[szycag]

What a bunch of control freaks.

[Limbrooke]

Here's to another 10 years of IE6! To hell with Chrome/IE7+/FF3/Opera(haha).

[njiska]

Why is it so popular in China?

[Ex-Cyber]

Why is it so popular in China?

A lot of people running Win98 on older computers, maybe?

[Ganelon]

Uh, really now? Less than 1% of China is on Win 98 according to any market share chart (less than the US BTW). The overwhelming majority are on XP. The real reason why IE6 is used so much in China? Because a large number of folks are using pirated versions of XP and have no braindead easy way to upgrade to IE7-8 so they don't bother.

[gct]

I have several machines running pirated XP, IE8 seemed to install fine through Windows Update. Not that I use IE ever...

To hell with ... Opera ...

[njiska]

Why is it so popular in China?

A lot of people running Win98 on older computers, maybe?

Assuming they upgraded, that's possible. The Chinese guy i work with seems to think they're gov't computers that got purchased and then never upgraded, or used for much more than solitaire.

[Slump]

Lynx or bust!!

Fixed...

[Ex-Cyber]

Uh, really now? Less than 1% of China is on Win 98 according to any market share chart (less than the US BTW). The overwhelming majority are on XP. The real reason why IE6 is used so much in China? Because a large number of folks are using pirated versions of XP and have no braindead easy way to upgrade to IE7-8 so they don't bother.

That would have explained it back when IE7 first came out, but I find it hard to believe that nobody has come up with something by now.

Assuming they upgraded, that's possible. The Chinese guy i work with seems to think they're gov't computers that got purchased and then never upgraded, or used for much more than solitaire.

Another thing that comes to mind is crappy web apps. It's definitely a known problem for corporations and other institutions to have old junk on their intranets that was coded and tested only on some specific IE version and breaks if they try to run it on any other browser. Add in ActiveX for extra bullshit.

[Elixir]

IE sucks period, it's pretty obvious that they're trying to keep up with Firefox, which is trying to keep up with Chrome.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

I wonder if any of those statistics allow for ppl having more then 1 web browser on their PCs. ie while they have IE6 installed they also have another browser installed like firefox which is what they use most of the time

[Vexorg]

I wonder if any of those statistics allow for ppl having more then 1 web browser on their PCs. ie while they have IE6 installed they also have another browser installed like firefox which is what they use most of the time

The statistics being used for this would be based on websites reporting what user agent strings are being sent by browsers when they access the site. This means they're recording the browsers actually being used, not just installed browsers.

[njiska]

IE sucks period, it's pretty obvious that they're trying to keep up with Firefox, which is trying to keep up with Chrome.

Which is still lagging behind Opera's nightly builds. But who wants to use those?