End Internet Explorer 6 – it’s old!

Do you want to contribute make the internet a happier place? Then start spreading the word to upgrade from IE6 to the latest versions.

The IE6 browser is one of the most out of date browsers currently out there and many web designers struggle because they don’t display code the way it should. For example CSS style sheets doesn’t look the same as it does in IE8, Chrome or Firefox.

There are still many people with old versions of Windows that has IE6 on it and they don’t update their browsers. Or sometimes a web designer will design a website for a client and when they view the website with IE6 it looks all skew and wrong.

What can you do as a web designer and how does it work?

There is this nifty piece of code that you can install in the header of every future website you will be designing. How this code works is when a visitor with IE 6 visits the website, the code puts a grey matte at 75% transparency over the whole website and displays text telling them to upgrade to either the latest version of IE or the better browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.

How do I find this code and where do I install it?

You can either go to the developer website: http://www.end6.org/eng/source/

Or you can paste this piece of code between the header tags of your website:

<script src=”http://www.end6.org/js/eng_end6.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

Or you can download the script directly if you want to host it on your own server.

So by adding this piece of code to all of your websites you can make your life easier as a web developer and make the internet a better place.