It’s now been nearly 5 months since the official launch of IE8 (and just as long since I last posted a blog entry) and there has been some positive movement in the browser wars according to the PropertyPal.com usage statistics. This time last year IE6 users made up approximately 27% and now 12 months later that has dropped to 15%.
On the face of it that sounds great as it would seem I now have less IE6 users to worry about. Wrong … PropertyPal.com usage has shot up over the last 12 months and as a result IE6 usage on the website has actually gone up by 271% compared to this day 1 year ago. Now you wont hear me complaining too much about the traffic going up but the IE6 problem is a nasty side effect, it makes me think of the end of an action film where the good guy kills the bad guy only at the last moment for the bad guy to come round and reach for his gun. Hopefully though the good guy (lets call the good guy Google Chrome for now) will follow the script and stop him just before he pulls the trigger.
This website brings me hope, maybe they know something I don’t: http://isie6dead.com/
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