On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Sherool jamydlan@online.no wrote:
Actualy there is one big reason not to: As long as people continue to carter for IE6 then less computer savy users will see no reason to upgrade because "it still works". I believe that's precicely the reason it's market share remains fairly high, and why web developers still feel they must continue cartering to it, and as long as they still carter to it... Well let's just say that unless a initiative like this gain some traction everyone will be stuck "having" to support IE6 untill all the old computers out there break down and die and are replaced by new ones that doesn't have IE6 pre-installed.
Right, that is the case. People will continue to run ie6 until their computers break and are replaced by computers that come with ie7. If you put a banner explaining to people that they should upgrade etc, you might get a few people to, but mostly you will just clutter the screen with meaningless information for people that can't upgrade. (either due to being in a controlled environment, or more likely limited technical knowledge)
The act of upgrading a browser is beyond the comprehension of many users unfortunately. (what is a browser, is at&t my browser now, google?) Clearly if they are running any updates at all they have already been badgered by microsoft to update to IE7 and given a button that will do it for them, they've ignore that, why would they listen to Wikipedia's more complex instructions?