Relying on our own strength to push IE6 to destruction_HTML/Xhtml_Web page production

In fact, we wonder every day when IE6 will really die, but since its release in 2001, IE6 has been dominating the domestic browser market, and it still occupies more than 50% of the domestic browser market share.

But I think, whether you are an ordinary user, a website developer or a domestic browser developer, we should take some measures to jointly promote the demise of IE6.

If you are a loyal user of IE6, please upgrade your IE6 as soon as possible

Give you a reason to upgrade IE6? Okay:

1. You and your company are under security threat. Is there no better reason to refute this? Even internationally renowned large companies such as Google and Yahoo have been seriously attacked because of their use of IE6. Which company's IE6 will not be attacked?
2. Governments around the world are recommending that everyone upgrade their browsers. After the 0day vulnerability of IE6 was exposed, the governments of Germany, France, Australia and other countries have called on their citizens to give up using IE6;
3. Even Microsoft itself recommends that you give up IE6. Microsoft Security Research and Prevention Blog published an article saying that IE6 is most severely affected by the 0day vulnerability, and IE8 is basically not affected by the vulnerability. In fact, Microsoft has called on users to upgrade their browsers more than once.
4. This is not the last serious security vulnerability in IE6. IE6 has had countless serious security vulnerabilities since its release, and this is far from the end. It still has at least 144 vulnerabilities!
5. Microsoft will no longer provide support for IE6 after 2014. Is 2014 so far away? Or do you believe that 2012 will be the end of the world?
6. IE6 lacks support for web standards. The technology of IE6 is still 10 years ago. Internet technology has undergone tremendous changes after 10 years of development. Website front-end technology is constantly improving, and more advanced CSS, HTML, Javascript and other technologies can bring users Better experience - IE6 users will not be able to experience these advanced contents. For example, some CSS3 features used in front-end observation will not be experienced in IE6 or even IE8.
7. Some domestic companies have begun to require employees to upgrade their browsers. For example, Tencent has required all employees to upgrade IE6 to IE7.
8. IE6 is too outdated, and most foreign netizens no longer use IE6. Statistics show that foreign users have gradually phased out IE6. IE8 and Firefox are the mainstream (via People's Daily Online).
9. Major foreign websites have begun to make it clear that they will no longer support IE6. For example Google will stop supporting IE 6 users must upgrade to at least IE 7.

(Partial reference from:http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/5-more-reasons-why-ie6-must-die/)

If these reasons are not enough, then please take a look at the reasons for insisting on using IE6 according to foreign statistics. Of course, there is some ridicule here. If you happen to be in one of these situations, please don’t be angry :) :

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Of course, in China, users who insist on using IE6 may still have two other reasons:

1. I am used to the operation method of IE6, but I don’t like the tab-style browsing of IE7 and other browsers. Of course a person’s habits are the most important. It is no longer clear who invented the tab browser method, but Opera and Firefox used it one after another. Later, the domestic maxthon browser also adopted that method, and then in 2006, IE7 also adopted the tab method. This shows that tabs are a very good way of browsing, efficient and convenient. Otherwise, the majority of netizens would have long been opposed to this method, and major browsers would not have persisted. So I suggest you try new techniques and break out of your habits.
2. IE6 is faster, IE7 and IE8 are too slow. IE7 and IE8 are indeed too slow, but the new versions of Firefox 3.6 and Chrome have always been very fast.

Front-end developers can strive to give up compatibility with IE6

If you are a glorious front-end developer, I hope you can do as much as possible to make IE6 die faster:

1. Lead by example and give up IE6 yourself. From front-end observation and other technical website visit statistics, the proportion of IE6 users is still more than 30%, which shocked me. As a front-end developer, if you use IE6 as your main browser, then the website you build should not be tested in IE7/8 and other more advanced browsers, right?
2. Convince your boss or customers to give up compatibility with IE6. Is it necessary to spend 2 times or even 3 times the time and effort to make the website perform consistently in IE6 and other browsers? I think that appropriate distinctions can be made between different browsers - allowing the website to achieve the best performance in modern browsers such as Firefox 3.5, Chrome/Safari and Opera, while achieving a relatively poor interface in IE - of course without affecting layout and functionality.
3. Call on your friends to abandon IE6. Invite your friends to use IE7/8 or Firefox, Chrome and other browsers. In addition, many people have personal blogs where they can call on IE6 users to upgrade their browsers. You can also participate in numerous online projects that promote IE6 upgrades, such as webrebuild.org’s IE６upgrade activities and the very effective IE6 Update中.

Browser manufacturers should take more responsibility

A sentence that comes to mind: There are many people with money here who are stupid, come quickly! Of course this is just a joke.

However, it is said that the number of Internet users in China now reaches as high as 360 million! And this number keeps growing. This is obviously a huge market.

So recently, major companies have been involved in the browser market, each launching its own brand of browsers. After years of fighting among Maxthon, Window of the World, Tencent TT, and Green Browser, Sohu Browser, Sina, etc. browser and 360 browser. But all of them are based on IE as the core (maxthon and Sohu browser have dual-core versions of IE and webkit) and do not have their own core. So fellow netizens, don’t think that your computer is safe if you use a so-called “safe” browser. Its core IE itself is not safe. These shell browsers are not safe at all - but some browsers will add some This function prevents you from misoperation.

For the domestic browser market, I think this "Warring States Period" situation is very good. It can at least popularize a little "browser" knowledge and improve netizens' understanding of the Internet and Internet security.

But I think domestic browser manufacturers should take more responsibility.

Your browser product does have many features and many useful or cool functions. It pays more attention to the usage habits of Chinese people. But when users are attacked because of IE vulnerabilities, will you take responsibility? Or put the blame on Microsoft? This seems a bit unfair~~

For IE, the safest, most powerful, and most stable one should be IE8. If you can push users to upgrade their kernels to the latest version, you can definitely reduce the risks you have to take for security. . In addition, reducing one kernel support will also reduce your development and maintenance expenses.

Summary

Letting IE6 withdraw from the stage of history will not happen overnight. The user's laziness makes him unwilling to take the initiative to upgrade, and Microsoft's browser upgrade mode is so old (and Firefox's prompt upgrade and Chrome's background automatic upgrade mode are omitted) caused a lot of trouble). So we can only rely on our own strength to promote the demise of IE6.