{"id":531,"date":"2009-03-23T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2009-03-23T12:12:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:12:54","slug":"its-time-to-bring-down-ie6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/its-time-to-bring-down-ie6\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to bring down IE6!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/new-year-new-site-new-look-new-logo-new-podcasts\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.netmag.co.uk\/files\/bd.png\" alt=\"Bring Down IE6\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of you may remember that we had some issues with Internet Explorer 6 support when we released our new web site.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/new-year-new-site-new-look-new-logo-new-podcasts\/\">made some negative comments<\/a> about IE6.  And I was being polite.  Unfortunately IE6 is still in use in millions of companies and, as I mentioned in that last post, some 35% of our web traffic is delivered by people using IE6.  If it were up to me I&#8217;d banish it to web browser hell.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m all for a new campaign from .Net magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringdownie6.com\/\">Bring Down IE6<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>If you have the power to do so, upgrade now, or try out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\/\">Firefox<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Google Chrome<\/a> .  If you&#8217;re working for a company that locks down their PCs and forces you to use IE6, get vocal &#8211; educate your colleagues and IT department.  Petition them to lift you out of the dark ages! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringdownie6.com\/\">Check out the site<\/a> to see how you can get involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may remember that we had some issues with Internet Explorer 6 support when we released our new web site. I made some negative comments about IE6. And I was being polite. Unfortunately IE6 is still in use in millions of companies and, as I mentioned in that last post, some 35% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}