A new campaign, set to free web developers from the nightmarish Internet Explorer 6 support, has been launched recently. Assuming a goldfish was sneaking around web developers & design studios, granting them a single wish to make their life easier, this would probably be it: Make IE6 go away. Forever!
Although this initiative is blessed, and hopefully more and more website will join in urging their users to move out of the dark, unless Microsoft itself will force this upgrade as mandatory, we’re still looking at a few good years until we’re truly free.
I would also suggest another incentive to speed up the process: Shame Lists.
The idea is simple: if you visit a website that prefers supporting the old IE6 (may I remind you this is a 2001 graduate), over making sure their website works fully under Firefox, IE8, or Chrome – you can vote it in.
I assume the stars on top of the Shame List will be government organizations and businesses who are more old-economy oriented (how advanced is your bank’s website?). They don’t typically “get the web”, but they get the basic idea of shame. I hope.
So, who would you add to the glorious shame list today?
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