IE6 getting taken down. For the realz!

[vikin]

Just wanted to give a heads up on the big news from Norway (that's a small country in Europe) this week. Over 60 news sites - all the mayor news sites, the Norwegian version of eBay, and a myriad of smaller sites have all added a warning to IE6 users visiting their sites. It's a simple text with links to better browsers wrapped in conditional comments.

There are many articles about this, but all in Norwegian, so I've done a write-up in English on my blog. Norwegian IE6 spring cleaning (http://thatnorwegianguy.com/norwegian-ie6-spring-cleaning/).

Search #IE6 on twitter (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ie6) and you'll see a lot of chatter about it.

Sweden has already followed. I challenge anyone in the position to do the same in Australia to go ahead!

[Ray]

This is great. Getting all viking style on Microsoft.

I realised a while back that the headaches people blame on IE are actual real headaches.

Coding for IE6 gives you this prolonged feeling of not being in control - and it's bad for your health. Just when you thought you were a full bottle on its bugs, another one pops up.

Where was that photo on your blog taken? Is it Bellanger?

[vikin]

Funny thing. After writing this I had to battle IE6 again. Oh well. But I'm definitely getting a more relaxed attitude towards it's ugly bugs. These days it's more of a "ok, it works enough". Then get on with the real work.

It's also getting some notion in other places now. The Blog Herald has a piece (http://www.blogherald.com/2009/02/19/norway-does-battle-with-ie6-twitter-tracks-it/) on it. (And they were fine enough to give me plenty of linkage.)

The header on my blog is randomized, so I'm not sure which one you've seen. I don't know of Bellanger though. They are all from last summer's roadtrip south and north WA.

[hambodevelopment]

I just developed a site and apart from an issue with overflow: auto; and IE7, it worked out great with IE6!

It should still be led out the back yard and shot in the head.