beyond measure

Well, not really a conspiracy theory. I recently uninstalled Firefox 3 and tried to download Firefox 2 through Internet Explorer 8. When I tried to click the download button, an error occurs and eventually the browser gets closed. See for yourself:

I’m sure there just might be something with my computer but it was pretty funny.

Found this in TechCrunch. As we all know, many people are still using Internet Explorer 6. In effect, we, fussy web developers as we are, are suffering every day we do our work for the web. Even unto this day we are still trapped in this routine of checking and making sure our websites work in IE6. We’d be leaving in a dreamworld if I’ll say that it’s easy to make things work in IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera, and all other browsers out there. And people still using IE6, the most untamed beast of them all, just ain’t helping us.

So I’m joining this move, Save A Developer, Upgrade Your Browser. There’s a script that you can put in your websites that’ll show a neat and cool message in the top-right of the browser window that says “Upgrade IE 6 Now”. This is shown only for IE6 users of course. I’m putting it in this site after this post. Moving forward, I’ll just continue my quest of scaring every IE6 user that I find that spyware will eat out their computer if they don’t upgrade.

I use Opera for daily-use and Firefox for web development (because of Firebug). Opera is just too neat, fast, and light to pass up.

P.S. Someone named Michael commented in the TechCrunch article that he started a project like this about 6 months ago. The project’s named End 6!.