Users of Internet Explorer 6: The Lost Tribe

Posted on March 26th, 2011 by Shane

Users of Internet Explorer 6: The Lost Tribe

In early 2011, the war between the browsers was red hot. Many users strongly defended their choices, while others are still resistant to change and bet for Internet Explorer 6 , the default browser that came in their old computers.

Even from Microsoft was made campaign to extinguish IE6. The countdown has left us under alternatives like IE9 , Firefox , Opera or Google Chrome . However, a user group, unrelated to this wave of change, decided to isolate himself in uncharted territory to enjoy their ancient browser.

Our team of anthropologists has discovered his whereabouts: join us in this journey through inhospitable territory where terms such as HTML5 or " tabs "are considered nothing short of witchcraft.

A hostile reception

A few minutes after arriving in this land forsaken web standards, we received a procession unfriendly . It was then discovered that the insulation and the use of an outdated browser had made ​​a dent in their lifestyle.

Barras-de-Herramientas-Extralargas

Because Internet Explorer 6 has no eyelashes , and are implemented in the next version, this tribe was forced to increase the length of your toolbars to the point that many reach over five feet tall. These bars are now used as missiles against those who could endanger free use Microsoft’s browser.

After revealing our friendly intentions and purely scientific, the natives gave us access to his small shelter.

In constant threat

Pop-Ups-en-la-JunglaUpon entering the village of Internet Explorer 6 users understood why he was suspicious attitude. The surroundings were crowded with many banners and pop-ups flying that threatened the free navigation of the community.

Many of these users told us long ago that did not receive security updates , and that its browser was little more than a sieve against viruses and Trojans. It is true that Microsoft had a rather passive attitude in his time with regard to patches, coming to take months to resolve fairly obvious holes . This has changed in later versions of IE, however, this tribe is not willing to try.

In our survival pack brought some emergency solutions such as Adblock Plus and Flashblock , who kindly offered to the Indians. However, they rejected them, stating as grounds that your browser is not compatible with extensions .

The re-designers : an endangered profession

We decided to go into a large shed and we were amazed at what we found there: a group of people, calling themselves " re-designers ", returned to lay out all the sites to be displayed correctly in Internet Explorer 6.

Los-re-diseñadores-de-IE6

Over time, modern browsers have adopted the standards of the W3C , as well as designers and created pages. This has led to many models of sites appear incorrectly in Internet Explorer 6, forcing users to take more extreme measures.

Through various tricks and quick fixes, a re-designer is able to serve between three and five sites per hour to the users of this tribe, which we made ​​clear that nobody in the village would need a very fast Internet connection …

The frustration of hunting

A-la-caza-de-descargasAt evening, we decided to accompany an expedition of the faithful of Internet Explorer 6 to its usual search pages and downloads. Because the browser does not have a search bar itself , users have to catch them with their own hands.

After a couple of hours, the tribe took several downloads for your browser. Pieces of heavy weight, unfortunately, escaped on the way back to town. And is that Internet Explorer 6 does not have a download manager himself that, among other things, pause downloads , making it necessary to install additional programs such as Orbit Downloader or FlashGet .

The latest scare you receive when the natives themselves confessed that we did not know how to get back to town. It seems that they tried to find through Google Maps , but none of the popular browser applications work correctly in IE6, so we had to follow our own trail to return safely.

The farewell

The end of the day was near, so we decided to return to base camp to enjoy again our eyelashes, our manager and web downloads compatible, functional and well designed. Before leaving, of course, we as a gift to the natives some brochures about quality alternatives to Internet Explorer 6 .

* Internet Explorer 9 , a worthy successor surprises

* Mozilla Firefox 4 , promising the new version to come out

* Google Chrome 10 , very fast and frequent updates

* Opera 11 , pioneer and revolutionary in each new iteration

* Maxthon 3.0 , dual rendering engine and many other functions

They also offered information on several campaigns for the disappearance of the ancient browser from Microsoft, hoping that their arguments would convince them:

* IE6 No More

* IE6 Funeral

* Bring Down IE6

And you, you are among the tribe of users of Internet Explorer 6? If so, what reasons prevent you from performing this change?

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