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===1 Sentence Summary===
===1 Sentence Summary===


Get major websites to sign up to a "no guarantee of support for IE 6 after <date>"; use this as leverage in upgrade process.
Get major websites and developers to sign up to a "no guarantee of support for IE6 after <date>", and use this as leverage in the “Upgrade the Web” process.


===Goals===
===Goals===

Revision as of 21:29, 6 October 2009

This content was created as part of a brainstorming session at MozCamp Eu 2009

Title

Death Of IE6 Day - End The Pain

or

  • "Kiss IE6 Goodbye"
  • IE6 R.I.P. August 27, 2001 to August 27, 2010
  • IE6 “Obituary Notice”

1 Sentence Summary

Get major websites and developers to sign up to a "no guarantee of support for IE6 after <date>", and use this as leverage in the “Upgrade the Web” process.

Goals

  • Reduce number of IE installations to ignorable percentage
  • Give web developers great joy
  • Reduce costs at web companies
  • Enable users to enjoy the full benefits of the web

Audience

  • End users still using IE 6
  • IT departments managing IE 6 deployments
  • Businesses with websites, particularly large web properties

Activities

Simple one-page website:

IE 6 makes web developers miserable and keeps users from experiencing the full power of the web. After

28th August 2010

the following websites will no longer guarantee to support IE 6:

YouTube [logo] Facebook [logo] 37Signals [logo] Wikipedia Digg Slashdot Orkut .... <list of hundreds of companies>

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