Last week WordPress officially dropped support for IE6. I am shocked! Not that they abandoned the dinosaur, but that it took them this long! We stopped testing for it two years ago.
But then I went to this site: The Internet Explorer Countdown, subtitled: Moving the world off of Internet Explorer 6. And I wonder what’s going on in in places where the percentage of people on IE6 exceeds 10%. With the Western World below 5%, I look at China (34%!) and South Korea (23%) and India (11%) and I wonder if there is a cultural tendency to avoid technological change.
Regardless, Waxcreative officially joins the cause. If you can see the bright orange banner below, please, for the love all all things digital, UPGRADE! It’s FREE!
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So funny! I just upgraded to IE8; aren’t you proud of me?
I *am* proud of you! But you were on IE7, right? You weren’t still on 6…
I saw that site the other day and was really surprised that such a high percentage of South Korean Internet users are still on IE6! South Korea is apparently the most wired place on earth, being called the “bandwidth capital of the world,” with all of their Internet cafés and their online gaming industry. It’s interesting that the country that has the highest number of Internet users is so behind on upgrading their browsers.
Down with IE6!