You are all invited by a Denver Web design firm who will be holding a tongue-in-cheek funeral for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 on March 4 to celebrate the aged browser’s decline.

Aten Design Group Inc. announced IE6’s funeral on Monday with a site, IE6funeral.com, that offered a short obituary and an invitation to a wake.

“Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010, in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc.,” the obit read. “Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as ‘IE6,’ is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight.”

The Google and March 1 references come from the search giant’s recent announcement that it would drop IE6 from the list of supported browsers for its Google Docs online applications and its Google Sites hosting services starting on Monday, March 1. Yesterday, Google’s popular video site YouTube named March 13 as the end-of-support date for IE6.

“We thought it would be funny to do an IE6 funeral,” said Justin Toupin, Aten Design’s founder and creative director, in an interview. “It’s a humorous spin on a browser that a lot of us have loved to hate for a long time. We’re just saying that it’s a fun way to celebrate companies like Google saying that they’re no longer going to support IE6.”

But Toupin admitted that the reaction to the funeral announcement has taken him by surprise. Aten Design regularly hosts small in-office parties for the Denver Web design and development community, but those typically draw 30 or 40 people. So far, Aten has received more than 700 RSVPs to its March 4 event via its site.

“Now we have to figure out what to do about the actual party,” Toupin said.
“We have a pretty small office. This kind of blew up on us.”

Aten’s clients include several major nonprofit organizations, including the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Habitat for Humanity.

Toupin said he had nothing personal against IE6 but acknowledged that, like many other Web designers, he wouldn’t be sorry to see it go. “It does involve, toward the end of a project especially, considerable work adjusting things like CSS and JavaScript to make sure they work,” he said. Aten now evaluates IE6 support for its projects on a case-by-case basis, Toupin said.

More than anything, he added, the decision by Google and others to stop supporting the nearly nine-year-old browser marks an important step in the Web’s evolution. “But it’s also a great excuse to get together,” he said.

“In lieu of attending, please send flowers,” Toupin said in a blog entry posted yesterday.

Used Stationary Bikes is also supporting this IE funeral.

Microsoft’s browser has weathered a “kill IE6″ campaign since February 2009, when Facebook prompted IE6 users to upgrade. That movement accelerated last summer when Digg announced that it would curtail IE6 support, and an “IE6 Must Die”.

Twitter petition collected thousands of names. Microsoft has endorsed the anti-IE6 efforts, going so far as to say that “Friends don’t let friends use IE6,” although it has refrained from forcing users or companies to upgrade to IE7 or IE8, arguing that the old browser is still required by some enterprises.

According to Web metrics firm NetApplications.com, IE6 accounted for 20% of all browsers in use last month, while IE7 and IE8 held down about 15% and 25% shares, respectively. Much of the measured IE6 50% of the browsers in use. In the U.S., IE6’s share is less than 10%. Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment on the funeral, or answer questions, including one about whether it would be sending a representative to the wake.

“We’ve obviously struck a chord, and maybe in some cases, a nerve,” said Toupin on his blog. Source http://www.computerworld.com

Dear IE haters / IE users / Readers,

So far we have been expressing our views on how much IE SUCKS. we have expressed our bad/worst experiences about IE. As Developers and Designers we have shared our opinion and explained why IE sucks!

But we would now like to get the views of our readers… We think its important to know what you people think about it!  You are an IE hater? An IE user? Or a fan of IE? Please share with us  your surfing experience on Internet Explorer.

IE Haters – Let people know why you hate Internet Explorer.

IE users – Please share your best/worst experience.

IE Lovers – Come! Prove us wrong!

www.IEsucks.info

It messes up my pages and it’s giving me headaches.
Images won’t load, and text is backwards?
Lame, just lame. I’m not even going to bother with this anymore, and the sad
thing is lots of people still use this piece of garbage, and the
only reason why I’m using it right now is to check the compatibility of my
website. Well forget that.

Hopefully the day will come when internet explorer shit browser disappears and Firefox prevails. Internet Explorer sucks so much, we won’t stop this internet explorer sucks campaign.

XHTML is the future of the web, and the most important part of it is the MIME type used to serve it. Although most web sites are served with the MIME type of text/html, the latest version of XHTML (version 1.1) needs to be served with a MIME type of application/xhtml+xml.

Internet Explorer doesn’t understand this important MIME type, but every other browser does. Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror are all standards compliant. Internet Explorer is not standards compliant.  ie sucks and should be banned now.

So I’m giving my readers fair warning and giving them a mechanism to install Firefox. They’ll be so much better off if they switch as ie sucks and sucks and we want it dead.

Yeah, ie sucks, every attempt at dom based scripting always leads to headaches with IE. CSS scripting is a pain. The market is all IE, so as a web developer, you have to support the damn thing.

I couldnt tell you how many hours ive spent trying to develop something around IE. First, dev it in FireFox (1 hour), then, get it working in IE (2+ hours). Its crazy, i couldnt really care about the security of the thing, leave that to MS to mess things up.

Solution, if you cant get rid of IE because stupid people still use it (and ultimately end up paying more on dev time). then you need a work around. A abstracted layer for dom scripting would be nice. As for the CSS and rendering problems, abstract that away with additional script. Web sites get slower, everyone suffers, angry people throw bricks at MS. Revolution !

After seeing that, you can check out http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/8/16/4999, which is a response to IE Group Program Manager’s response to people bitching about IE and standards compliance.  I found this after building a Web Site in Visual Web Developer 2005 (a Micro$oft product) and having it look perfect in FireFox, only to bring it up in Internet Explorer and having some wierd shit happen.  An ASP:Panel changed border styles and text colors (white text was showing up as blue, even if I used ‘#FFFFFF’ instead of ‘White’).

We’ve known each other for 8 years now . We had our good and bad times. Remember those blank night we spend together, you were messing up my css layout and i had to fix it.

Hey buddy i think you had your time , now please leave.

Sincerely,

IEsucks.info

Wanna say goodbye please drop a comment

inspired by dearie6

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Why We “Dislike” IE and why we say IE sucks?

The biggest problem with IE and maybe with Microsoft as well is that they would rather set some sort of standard even though the rest of the World is using another one that is working very well. In IE this is very apparent and when you design a website, 99% of the time, it will not display the same as any other one of the famous browsers out there such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari and funnily enough its replacement IE 7 and IE 8 (get that for a joke).

So now when you design a site you have to split it into 3 phases.
1. The initial design phase
2. The “See if it works in IE” phase
3. Then lastly the “Fix all the IE issues” phase

IE has been found to be the browser that sucks all over the web because of many complaints about its compatibility with web standards and many many other trouble while using internet explorer. IE is violating web standards and now we want it DEAD.

The IE sucks campaign is all about showing the world the troubles of using the web browser IE. There are currently many browsers with cool features. IE renders web sites badly and inconsistently.

Please support the IE sucks campaign and help make the internet a better place by killing the Internet Explorer Browser!