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IE6 No More

August 7th, 2009

IE6 No More is a movement to accelerate the death of Internet Explorer 6. The campaign asks sites to detect IE6 visitors and encourage them to upgrade to other browsers.

Today Mango Studio joined the movement as we discontinue our support for the IE6 browser. The aim is to target both personal users and corporate IT departments who are behind the times. The site creator, David Rusenko said:

“We think we can have a huge impact: For those users that are just unaware they are using an old browser (mothers, grandmothers), we’d like to encourage them to upgrade and have a better experience using our sites. For those users in corporate environments, we’d like to start putting pressure on the IT department to upgrade — the more users who complain about seeing the prompts (especially if coming from the top), the more pressure the IT department will have to either upgrade IE 6 or install Firefox side-by-side with IE 6 for compatibility reasons.”

Did you know.. 69% of corporate users can’t upgrade because they don’t have administration access or they are told they cannot upgrade. [source].

Mango Studio are disappointed that IT departments don’t feel an urgency to upgrade with IE7 having been realeased over 3 years ago. The more complaints the IT department gets (especially from the top), the more pressure they’ll feel to upgrade. Even if they can’t upgrade, they should install a version of Firefox.