> The site displays brilliantly in IE6.  Well done.

Well that's good news and bad news... and unfortunately, this isn't my 
work :)


> I just got a new laptop with IE6 installed.  I am often prompted to
> upgrade to IE7.  I haven't yet because I'm using it for a testing
> ground for IE6.  If this happens to me why isn't it happening to all
> IE6 users.

Dunno. Maybe they are and they're just not telling you? I haven't 
noticed that many sites to be honest - and I collect them. Sites that 
prompt you to upgrade I mean. There's been a sharp upswing of late, 
pushed in part by The Norwegians - my vague goal was to get IE6 off the 
radar in the space of a year...

... but I got distracted, and I'm going through a phase at the moment 
where I don't have to code for it anyway.

The general vibe I get is that the bulk of the delay is coming either 
from corporates who haven't budgeted on the not inconsiderable expense 
of upgrading, or a million internet cafes in India/Turkey/Brazil etc who 
run fairly old kit as a matter of economic necessity.

The former can be moved along (I think) with telling their users that 
IE6 is a security risk, and therefore the IT dept isn't doing their job 
by not upgrading... I was even considering a name-and-shame "service" to 
hurry this along. The latter is trickier - and far be it from me to tell 
anyone poorer than me what to do in any case. I was thinking that maybe 
Opera might be an alternative - being small and fast, but I don't know 
for sure.




Nick



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