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The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown

20 points by josefrichter 16y ago

IE9 is a leap forward, but not quite there yet. Help keep it under 1% market share!

Animus7 16y ago
Cute, but I'd rather my users upgrade to IE9 if it means they'll stop using the uglier ones before it.
- ch0wn 16y ago
  The update requires direct user action (including a reboot) anyways, so I'd rather encourage them to upgrade to FF 4, Chrome or Opera.
  - sudhirj 16y ago
    That is actually what the letter to users does- http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info
obtino 16y ago
Why bother counting when you're going to try to force it on existing IE users anyway?
Yoric 16y ago
Nice one. Now, how do we manage to make every single webpage IE Chrome frame compatible?
mixu 16y ago
Totally illegible font color, and selecting the text does not help since the highlight color is also very light. Can't read anything except the graph and headings.
- janv 16y ago
  You view the site in IE, don't you?
  - deleted 16y ago
    [deleted]
  - davidhollander 16y ago
    The 3 columns are #ababab on #ffffff in Chrome, in other words a 33% difference in brightness. For primary body text of regular or thin width, a lot of readers are uncomfortable below 50%.
    - josefrichter 16y ago
      get a decent display :-) ok, will give it more contrast. sorry and thanks.
      - davidhollander 16y ago
        np, it's visible on my display just trying to be helpful based on past experience with others and seeing the initial comment. Part of what might actually be happening is that after seeing the header for each of the 3 columns, the eye sight jumps to the links at the bottom of the columns because it is higher contrast than the body text, and then the visual focus can't help but leaking further down into the "Oh ma" footer which also has higher contrast than the column body text, and then for each column the reader has to make a more concentrated effort to go back and focus on what that important content said. Whereas on the IE6 site, the body text of each column is actually higher contrast than its header and link footer rather than lower. So I think they got that annoying feeling you get when you have to reread a page of a book.
37prime 16y ago
Someone made something like this a few weeks back based on the IE6 Countdown. Screen grab: http://37prime.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/iecountdown.png http://37prime.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/iecountdo...
sudhirj 16y ago
Could you apply Creative Commons the letter you wrote at http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info? I'm sure there are more than a few people out there who'd like to use it.
- josefrichter 16y ago
  feel free to reuse the texts in any way you want. backlink would be nice, though not necessary.

20 points by josefrichter 16y ago

IE9 is a leap forward, but not quite there yet. Help keep it under 1% market share!

Animus7 16y ago

Cute, but I'd rather my users upgrade to IE9 if it means they'll stop using the uglier ones before it.

ch0wn 16y ago
The update requires direct user action (including a reboot) anyways, so I'd rather encourage them to upgrade to FF 4, Chrome or Opera.
- sudhirj 16y ago
  That is actually what the letter to users does- http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info

obtino 16y ago

Why bother counting when you're going to try to force it on existing IE users anyway?

Yoric 16y ago

Nice one. Now, how do we manage to make every single webpage IE Chrome frame compatible?

mixu 16y ago

Totally illegible font color, and selecting the text does not help since the highlight color is also very light. Can't read anything except the graph and headings.

janv 16y ago
You view the site in IE, don't you?
- deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
- davidhollander 16y ago
  The 3 columns are #ababab on #ffffff in Chrome, in other words a 33% difference in brightness. For primary body text of regular or thin width, a lot of readers are uncomfortable below 50%.
  - josefrichter 16y ago
    get a decent display :-) ok, will give it more contrast. sorry and thanks.
    - davidhollander 16y ago
      np, it's visible on my display just trying to be helpful based on past experience with others and seeing the initial comment. Part of what might actually be happening is that after seeing the header for each of the 3 columns, the eye sight jumps to the links at the bottom of the columns because it is higher contrast than the body text, and then the visual focus can't help but leaking further down into the "Oh ma" footer which also has higher contrast than the column body text, and then for each column the reader has to make a more concentrated effort to go back and focus on what that important content said. Whereas on the IE6 site, the body text of each column is actually higher contrast than its header and link footer rather than lower. So I think they got that annoying feeling you get when you have to reread a page of a book.

37prime 16y ago

Someone made something like this a few weeks back based on the IE6 Countdown. Screen grab: http://37prime.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/iecountdown.png http://37prime.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/iecountdo...

sudhirj 16y ago

Could you apply Creative Commons the letter you wrote at http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info? I'm sure there are more than a few people out there who'd like to use it.

josefrichter 16y ago
feel free to reuse the texts in any way you want. backlink would be nice, though not necessary.