If there was ever a time for the web design and development community to temporarily put what they’re current doing on hold and do something for the greater good of the industry, this has got to be it. Dan Frydman of Indigo Media (< it’s all about the PR and backlinks isn’t it Dan!) has started a Downing Street petition to encourage the many Government faculties to ditch their use of IE6.
The hope is that this will remove the obvious (to anyone outside the public sector!) security risk which IE6 poses from our Government departments who each hold invaluable data on each of us. It will also allow the web development industry to provide better tools for public facing entities and save thousands upon thousands of developer man hours on every public sector web project.
Just before 11am this morning, an early news release on the BBC website suggested only 44 signatures had been put down. Now, only a couple of hours gone (and typical of how these things work with the online community) the number of signatures stands at well over a thousand.
Who’s to say we can’t smash that figure and send IE6 to the dark ages where it truly belongs. Sign the petition here and demand that your Government moves away from the archaic Internet Explorer 6 browser.
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I’d prefer to keep IE6 and ditch the government.
Tough call @Marchamont. There’s not much in it.
There are quite a few large banks and corps still forcing their staff to use this archaic browser. It lots of instances it’s the IT support teams that are somehow reluntant to upgrade – very strange.
@Leigh,
I’m not that surprised, it’s quite a task to do rollouts on a massive scale.
@Leigh,
And the tech support guys are usually hardware and software engineers – not web developers. So if someone is moaning that their “pretty website is broken” you can imagine how that goes down …especially alongside the “my mouse won’t work …oh, no, wait, it’s been unplugged” sorts of phone calls!