A Stay of Execution for Internet Explorer 6
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Director, Online Marketing, IntraLinks
POSTED ON October 22, 2009
This past summer, websites all over the Internet banded together to defeat a terrible scourge that was "stifling innovation," "awful," and "restricting." This scourge was not the work of hackers, anti-competitive behavior, or hardware failure. This scourge was Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), one of the most downloaded web browsers in the history of the Internet.
The ‘Kill IE6' movement received so much notoriety that it made the front page of CNN. In tech circles, blogs like Mashable led the charge with the article IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On. Within that article, author Ben Parr states that "15 to 25 percent of the world's browsing [is] done in a browser created in the digital Stone Age (aka 2001)."