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Facebook Is Fed Up With IE6

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February 25th, 2008
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My friend Dave and I always joke about creating a style sheet that we’d only serve to people browsing with IE6 that just has * {display: none;}. For all you non-geeks this means that everything would be hidden, you’d see a blank page. I have seen a few personal blogs with messages that show up saying something along the lines of “your browser is old, get a new one” but until now I have never seen a “corporation” with a similar message.

When you visit Facebook using IE6 you get a message above your news feed (see above). The message reads:

Please Read This!

You may want to upgrade your browser.

You’re using Internet Explorer 6 to browse Facebook right now. Facebook will work better if you upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or switch to another browser.

The message then lists links to upgrade to IE7, switch to Firefox, Safari or Flock.

I wonder what it took for the Facebook developers to convince their higher ups that this was something they should do. As far as I can see the site works fine in IE6. Lucky guys, no more IE6 for them….

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  1. Dave Says:
    February 25th, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    That is amazing. Ie6 is a waste of development time.

  2. Andre Says:
    February 25th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    When your CEO is 23 I’d hope he’d “get it” enough to do this…

  3. Andre Says:
    February 25th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    Oh yeah… IE6 is the new Netscape 4 circa 2002 :D

  4. Matt Says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    But everyone uses Facebook at work and most offices can’t upgrade to IE7 because they have intranets that rely on IE6. No sense in telling someone to upgrade if they don’t have the ability to do so. Facebook knows that and hey know they have to continue to support IE6. So now they just have a message about upgrading and the same amount of development work as always.

    I guess they are trying to push new browsers on anyone who has the power to upgrade and that’s a good thing…

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