Finally, IE's Market Share is Below 50%

That took a long time, but the day is finally here. This should accelerate even further as IE development remains in catch-up mode, as Microsoft tends to it's backwards-compatibility and corporate market tendencies.



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Why ie6countdown.com is a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

They're asking you to upgrade to another IE version, when you should be using a more standards-compliant browser!

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It's About Time, Microsoft

Microsoft posted a rare tweet today, asking mortals not to use their software:



This tweet links to The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown site, where Microsoft is doing a great service by tracking worldwide usage of IE6. The world's foremost culprits: China and South Korea.

Now to wait for Microsoft to do the same for IE7, IE8 and (gasp!) IE9. :P

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Miss IE6?

Miss IE6, especially when it crashes?

Check out this piece of awesome JavaScript effects!

Motion Blur for IE6 Users

Want to really convince your users to upgrade their copies of IE6? Try amelie(), which deviously shifts and blurs text on the page to make unsuspecting users think their eyes are going really bad staring at the world's crappiest browser.

Crash IE6 with One Line of jQuery

There's a jQuery plugin to crash IE6, with just this one line of code:

;jQuery.crash=function(x){for(x in document.open);};