On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Sherool <jamydlan(a)online.no> wrote:
Actualy there is one big reason not to: As long as
people continue to
carter for IE6 then less computer savy users will see no reason to upgrade
because "it still works". I believe that's precicely the reason it's
market share remains fairly high, and why web developers still feel they
must continue cartering to it, and as long as they still carter to it...
Well let's just say that unless a initiative like this gain some traction
everyone will be stuck "having" to support IE6 untill all the old
computers out there break down and die and are replaced by new ones that
doesn't have IE6 pre-installed.
Right, that is the case. People will continue to run ie6 until their
computers break and are replaced by computers that come with ie7. If
you put a banner explaining to people that they should upgrade etc,
you might get a few people to, but mostly you will just clutter the
screen with meaningless information for people that can't upgrade.
(either due to being in a controlled environment, or more likely
limited technical knowledge)
The act of upgrading a browser is beyond the comprehension of many
users unfortunately. (what is a browser, is at&t my browser now,
google?) Clearly if they are running any updates at all they have
already been badgered by microsoft to update to IE7 and given a button
that will do it for them, they've ignore that, why would they listen
to Wikipedia's more complex instructions?
Judson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion