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Save IE6
- LiteOn 16y agoI don't see the point for this site. It's just misleading people into believing that ie is good. What is the point? So that the elite few can chuckle at the sarcasm? Waste of bandwidth.
- flexterra 16y agoI can't believe that 2,047 signed the petition
- erickhill 16y agoIn tiny text in the page footer it reads, "The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010." Something tells me 2K names captured across an entire year will not convince MS to change course with their own http://ie6countdown.com/ http://ie6countdown.com/
- grumpybaglady 16y agoApril 1st. Something tells me no ones trying to get anyone to change their minds.
- nollidge 16y agoAnd the text in the yellow box in the middle of the page says "SaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke".
- die_sekte 16y agoBanner blindess strikes again. I didn't even see the yellow box until I read this.
- Semiapies 16y agoThose people were probably laughing as they did so.
- mikerhoads 16y agoViral marketing via satire!
- drzaiusapelord 16y agoThe best thing about that site is that if you visit it using IE6 you get a script error.
- 9ec4c12949a4f3 16y agoI'd actually like to see what that looks like, even if it's just a joke.
- db42 16y agoSo, you actually use IE6 ? :P
- daleharvey 16y agoI got a real scare when I seen this and it wasnt immediately obvious it was a joke, phew
- MrMatters 16y ago> I love how you can only open one tab at a time, thus focusing your efforts. Multi-tab browsing is the devil! Just seeing someone refer to IE6 as "tabbed", albeit single-tabbed, made me realize how far we've come.
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- wipt 16y agoI recall a friend who advocated "tabs" with IE6. He seriously used it that way, too.
- mangirdas 16y agoTo be or not to be :)
- thefox 16y agoWhy ppl vote for that on HN?
- yinhm 16y agoYou should click to download it!
- jrwoodruff 16y agoI think that was the funniest part of the site, thank you for pointing it out. I was afraid it might actually download IE6 at first...
- sunilmohanty 16y agoSame here... that was the best part...
- Peppar 16y agoTry downloading it
- joshmanders 16y agoI love it!
- joshmanders 16y agoGiven negative for liking something satirical, I LOVE IT!
- nakkiel 16y agoMind if I upvote that one?
- dstein 16y agoAs far as I can tell there's no reason to get rid of IE6 unless you're going to also eliminate IE 7 and 8. Aside from CSS differences they are largely equivalent. Even IE9 doesn't support websockets or even half the HTML5 features of any other modern browser so for a modern web app you still need to drop IE support anyways.
- rimantas 16y agoAside from CSS differences they are largely equivalent. Sounds like "the biggest pains aside they are largely equivalent".
- melling 16y agoOne less browser to tweak and test. If you look at the numbers, IE7 is going away fast. That leaves IE8 and IE9. I think writing for a cross section of IE9, and the more modern browsers (FF,Chrome, Opera), and some specialized code for IE8 where necessary, is a big improvement.
- DrJokepu 16y agoI have to disagree. While IE7 (or IE8 for that matter) is clearly very far from being perfect, it's massively superior to IE6. Not just "CSS differences". I mean IE7 fixed bugs like select elements being always on top or the URL fragment (the #hash part) being submitted to the HTTP server as part of the URL. These issues are major pains in the back. Supporting IE7 is an awful lot easier than supporting IE6.
- dstein 16y agoThe things you have mentioned are rather trivial in the overall picture and really not a good enough reason to support IE7 but not IE6. The JavaScript engines are nearly identical and the broad set of technologies are the same. For example, I consider not supporting SVG 10 years after standarization a major probleam. And only IE9 addressed that issue.
- yuhong 16y ago
- iM8t 16y agoHaha, what an amazing joke. Felt for it.
- acconrad 16y agoThe only way this could be funnier is if everything was misaligned and padded funny, or objects were cutoff from the IE6 quirky box model.
- khatarnaak 16y agoThe worst part of this is the comparison with other browsers. http://saveie6.com/compare.php http://saveie6.com/compare.php This is just silly thing people can think of.
- tomkarlo 16y agoThe worst part of this is folks who don't get the joke.
- grimoire 16y agoPretty sure that is the best part.
- khatarnaak 16y agoOops i have taken this as a serious note!!!! :)... If we see fun aspect of this article then comparison is the BEST part of this article.....
- Bud 16y agoMy favorite bits were: "Get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6" (listed as a goal of the site) "Places Internet icon on desktop (blue e)" (listed as an IE6 feature) "No need to install (it’s there already)" (another feature) "Highly secure (has received lots of security updates)"
- dexen 16y ago> "Get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6" (listed as a goal of the site) Please correct me if I got it wrong, but it seems HTML 5 is a bit similar -- ``let's make a list of features our sponsors support''. Only the sponsor base is wider.
- PostOnce 16y agoWhat about "Toby Tablerow, SaveIE6 founder" Tablerow, heh.
- jk215 16y agohaha awesome.
- joakin 16y agoI just hope that nobody takes this seriously...
- dasil003 16y agoAs far as I'm concerned, this site is like joking about nazis with holocaust survivors.
- calebmpeterson 16y agoPerhaps a bit too much hyperbole here...
- Gunkertyjeb 16y agoIs this some sort of dark joke? If so, Too soon.
- yread 16y agoThe SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010. A site from the geeks at Pingdom. it's running a lot longer than it was meant to be. Just like IE6
- ahlatimer 16y agoSaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke by the uptime monitoring service Pingdom. Due to the tremendous interest it has received we have decided to keep this site up and running. Thanks everyone for the great feedback and for enjoying the irony! I guess they just didn't remove the conflicting text in their footer.
- kloc 16y agoI can just hope that this site renders fine on IE6.
- jfaucett 16y agoOooo... Its the Big One... You hear that Elizabeth... I'm comin' to you, I'm comin' home to Georgia
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- bromley 16y agoI was finding it hilarious until I got to: "SaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke by the uptime monitoring service Pingdom. Due to the tremendous interest it has received we have decided to keep this site up and running. Thanks everyone for the great feedback and for enjoying the irony!" Perhaps it's because I'm British (we Brits can be a little particular about humour, especially irony), but I don't think a joke like that should explicitly identify itself as such.
- yannickmahe 16y agoI'd agree but reading this comment thread shows a lot of people don't get that it is a joke.
- jrwoodruff 16y agoWhich really makes it that much more funny.
- nakkiel 16y agoExactly. I didn't bother reading the whole page but came back right away on HN to check the comment thread. You guys though are killing all the fun.
- derleth 16y ago> I don't think a joke like that should explicitly identify itself as such. Ideally, you'd be right. The problem is that so many people also don't think a joke should explicitly identify itself by being funny.
- diamondhead 16y agoSeriously, it's better than both IE7 and IE8.
- necro 16y agoSo IE6 still accounts for about 1 million monthly page views on our site...about 1.5% of the traffic. Yesterday we took the plunge and decided to display an eyesore of a box on every page on our site if you surf to it with ie6. Example of message: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6305769/ http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6305769/ Imagine if many sites did this to spur the upgrade process. I'm really curious to see the results of this...will traffic plunge by 1.5% or will the usage of ie6 switch to other browsers. Note: no ie9 upgrade choice.
- yannickmahe 16y agoI'm not sure it really will change anything. The assumption is that people with IE6 chose it and can change it which is often not the case (corporate users with a strict IE6 policy notably). It's reasonable to expect that your users will stay, and the browser repartition will follow the same curves it did before.
- necro 16y agoThat is a possibility for sure. Since pb is a younger audience my gut feel is that there are a lot of users who are simply clueless about what browser they are using and just don't know better. Whether they do anything about is another story.
- nakkiel 16y agoWell, this is 2011. That sort of policy just isn't in application anymore. Because companies with policies are companies with upgrade policies as well.
- yannickmahe 16y agoSadly, my current client does have a strict IE6 policy in place. Big inertia in some industries (hospitals and pharmaceutical industry in this case).
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- njharman 16y agoWow! Digg level posting on HN, thought that was at least a six+ months off.
- mncolinlee 16y agoI laughed out loud... "You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using opera, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition."
- zopticity 16y agoYou have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using chrome, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition.
- Stormbringer 16y ago"You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using msie, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition."
- elliottkember 16y agoYou have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using unknown, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition.
- dillon 16y agoI love how they have all of those quotes of people who use IE6... they all sound like idiots.
- te_chris 16y agoMy favourite part of the site is at the bottom where there's the "Latest tweets about Save IE6" section and it's empty.
- bonaldi 16y agoNo IE5 Mac, no credibility
- jawee 16y agoHas anyone tried browsing with IE6 lately? At the time, everything was probably compatible with it.. but my school still uses IE6 and I am finding more and more common web pages are broken by it. At this point, it probably serves more as a content filter than anything.
- jrubyer 16y agoIs the browser render speed actually true? http://saveie6.com/compare.php http://saveie6.com/compare.php O_o
- rworth 16y agoGeek irony. We like!
- idleworx 16y ago"They may take away our internets, but they can't ever take away our IIIIIEEEEEEEE666666666 .... " -braveheart