IE 6 abolition and the perpetual cluelessness of geeks

Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 11:57 AM
Thoughts by John (Article #244)

On the surface, this is a good idea.

But, it also reveals how painfully clueless some geeks are. Scroll down to the little graphic depicting the alternate browsers you can use. The first option is Firefox... Clueless, I tell ya.

Why is it clueless? Because it betrays the goal of abolishing IE 6 in order to engage in the worldwide geek passtime: trashing Internet Explorer while pimping Firefox.

Geeks are sometimes flat-out braindead when it comes to these things. The goal is to abolish IE6. Not, to abolish IE. And yet, it is quite clear that the folks that run IE6nomore.com are not committed to promoting adoption of IE8, but instead are trolling to bash IE in general without regard to version.

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It's clueless. Some people like Internet Explorer. Truth be told, if Internet Explorer had been as good with IE8 back in IE6 days, I never would have adopted Firefox. I mostly use Firefox as my primary browser out of entropy. And frankly, if Firefox continues to decline in quality as badly as it did between v 2.0 and v 3.5, Internet Explorer will have me back.

Geeks of the world, get your heads straight. Oppositional behavior is not goal in itself. Nor should it be. The goal should be to have folks running the best browsers so we can all have the best internet possible. Trying to railroad IE6 users into becoming Firefox adopters is dumb. Just let them upgrade to IE8 and skip the bullshit.

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