Seeing this pop up around the webboblag lately I find that the old fire in my belly isn't quite the fiery inferno one might have expected. Don't get me wrong! If IE6 was abolished, not only would it be a burden of my shoulders; It would save the company I work for shit loads of money, and my girlfriend would love me more.

No, the reason my battle roar might come off as a feeble “meh” this´time around is that I've seen, promoted and participated in this endeavour several times over the last few years. From “Browse Happy“, to “Explorer Destroyer” and “Kill Bill's Browser” (both of which seem to be taken down lately) and several others.

All of the above set out with the same goal; to rid the web of its ugliest and smelliest bastard child. None of them really had the impact one might have hoped for.

The reason for this is that… Hey guys; We're preaching to the choir. The people that even gives a nanosmidgen about what browser they use have already changed it. Furthermore, the places you'd be able to actually put this banner would largely be the kind of sites visited by the aforementioned collective of choral performers. I know most of my clients would give me some odd looks if I suggested we'd smack that thing in there.

In the end this is all about numbers. When clients feel that paying web professionals extra money to make a site render properly in IE6 outweighs the benefits, they'll stop paying and we'll stop doing. One key battle here is the corporate world. If we made, let's say may 10th the international “Talk to your IT-department about FireFox”-day, I'd say we've come a bit further on the quest for no more pain, please.

In closing; I applaud the effort, and I wish nothing more than to be proven wrong. This one time. I usually don't care for it.

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