Apparently the HSE is a fan, looking over my stats this morning it seems a member of the executive was having a look around one of my sites. There is nothing unusual in this, but I would have thought that the national health service would be using better equipment than IE6 .
Ok, so the Health Service has more to worry about than what browser it uses, doesn’t it? Well, with Google cutting support for IE6 from March and an armada of major security holes apparent in the grand old browser one wonders why they, and other companies that use the IE6, don’t simply upgrade.
Some people will tell you that it is difficult for companies to upgrade because their equipment has been designed for IE6. But as this interesting article at ZURB.com points out you can force IE8 to render as IE6 (while still keeping the IE8 security).
I don’t wish to evangelise for IE, I really dont think it is a great browsing experience, but it has its uses and corporate concerns over internal systems are genuine.
In the future even Microsoft will cease supporting IE6.
