Stop / Save IE6 - Its up to you to decide?

Lot of buzz is going on these days to Stop the usage of IE6.  CNN has come up with an article to stop the usage of IE6.

If you still want to use Internet Explorer better upgrade to IE7 or IE8 and enjoy the web browsing experience.

You might be asking yourself two questions right now: What’s so bad about IE6? And why do so many people (Web Browser Popularity in India) still use it? The answer to the first question is relatively simple: Internet Explorer 6 is outdated technology in a rapidly-changing Internet landscape. Imagine trying to use the social web, Microsoft Office, iTunes, IM, your video games, and all of your desktop apps…with a computer from 2001 (20 GB of space, 256 MB of RAM, anyone?). It’s the same thing: a great deal of new web technology is simply incompatible with IE6.

Below are couple of sites who are against IE6.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

I was able to find only one site asking to save IE6.

http://www.saveie6.com/

What is a Browser? Know More.

Until now, Microsoft hasn’t really prioritized encouraging users to upgrade. Unlike Mozilla’s Firefox or Apple’s Safari, Microsoft does not intrude upon users with requests to upgrade to a newer version of the browser. Hence, loads of users continue using a decades old piece of technology.

So instead of forcing an upgrade, Microsoft has done the next best thing; they have launched an advertising campaign at “browserforthebetter.com”. For every upgrade to 8 from 6 they will donate 8 meals to “Feeding America,” one of the nation’s largest hunger-relief charities.

 The Next step HTML 5

HTML (hypertext markup language) is the code that helps shape the world wide web – you’ve all probably used an HTML tag (especially if you blog) or played with HTML at some point. HTML 5 is the next revision of the HTML language, and the features that are coming with it are a doozy. And surely IE6 doesnt support it.