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bringdownie6.com — IE6 is the new Netscape 4. The hacks needed to support IE6 are increasingly viewed as excess freight. Like Netscape 4 in 2000, IE6 is perceived to be holding back the web.

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  • chriserwin, on 03/13/2009, -0/+6Fastest way to bring down IE6: find a security hole, develop a virus to exploit it, wash rinse repeat.

    People / Companies will upgrade browsers as a quick fix to a nasty problem.
  • mayonaize, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6Capital D Dugg.

    Is their a technical reason why Microsoft doesn't release new versions of IE as automatic software updates?
  • gagahput3ra, on 03/15/2009, -0/+5Let's make this to the frontpage!
  • comspy, on 03/13/2009, -0/+4Please! IE6 breaks on me every single day. It's just a pain to design sites around it anymore - hopefully this campaign will help switch at least a few people away from IE6.
  • JoshuaNeedham, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3Client complaints about design are an ever lasting headache because of this monstrosity of a program. Get with it, there are so many quality FREE browsers on the market and that don't need any ie.css files!
  • leopardhunter, on 03/16/2009, -0/+3For anyone who might be reading this in IE6 and wondering what to do, please upgrade. Here are two good choices, Firefox, and Opera.

    http://www.getfirefox.com/

    http://www.opera.com/
  • gagahput3ra, on 03/15/2009, -1/+4Nice idea, let's start infecting companies.
  • SpikedEffect, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2I agree, get rid of IE6 Already
  • inactive, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2Maybe the problem lies with OS integration.
    If it wasn't integrated, you could install ie8 on 2000 machines.
  • svivian, on 03/21/2009, -0/+2Damn IE8 doesn't support rounded corners! It doesn't pass acid3!

    (In other words... we'll find something.)
  • LTheobald, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2Dugg but I still can't see it happening. Too many companies are still tied to IE because of various ActiveX controls and other legacy bits. They can't upgrade to IE 7 either because a lot of them are running Windows 2000 and that can't run any version of IE above 6 :(

    I'd love to see this happening but it's not going to happen unless a lot of people start upgrading either their software or their OS. In a recession who's going to pay for that?
  • inactive, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2I'm going to be crucified here, but Safari 4 is amazing.
    Good antialiasing for fonts in windows, and really fast.
    It also uses very little screen real estate.
  • bigclickstudios, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1Imagine the hours spent across the globe by web designers fixing IE6 bugs. We should all send an invoice to Microsoft for our time fixing their mistake. If web designers, developers keep pandering to IE6 there is no reason for people to upgrade or change browser. Support the cause people!
  • telos, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1ie6 has not been supported for a while, and normally, they do ask for you to upgrade to ie7... the issue is the ridiculous amount of office machines still out there running windows 2000 which wont support an ie7 installation. The most current browsers a windows 2000 user can install are ie6, a some version of firefox i cant think of off the top of my head.

    Now, since Windows2000 is an OS that Microsoft wants to see replaced with VistaProfessional, etc., they will not waste the money porting their newest browser to a legacy os. Hope that helps.
  • WebKarnage, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1When will companies get real to the security risks of retaining IE6. Surely it's worth any short term hassle???
  • dvdrtrgn, on 03/20/2009, -0/+1I'll bet that millions (for real) are lost each week to the extra pain of developing code to work around the problems in IE. Clearly MS owes everybody money, apologies for the leveraging of their crapware.
  • svivian, on 03/21/2009, -0/+1I find Safari's fonts to be *too* blurry. Cleartype works fine. Actually sub-pixel smoothing on Ubuntu is the best IMO.
  • mcritz, on 03/20/2009, -0/+1Wait… without IE6 what will web developers complain about?
  • cunabula, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1No more need for transparent png fixes along with a raft of other pains. This is long overdue.
  • rendian, on 03/24/2009, -0/+0Couldn't agree more. I'll make it my personal national holiday when it really happens.

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