On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Sherool <jamyd...@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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
