Go Dark For IE & impending IE7 death

[Paul Irish]

Mentioned browser upgrade campaigns to Christian Heillman and he pointed to the recent http://godarkforie.org/ which he felt pretty indifferent toward.

It's an upgrade campaign that'll block a site (for one day) and throw up an image that links to http://godarkforie.org/upgrade/ 

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On a related note, IE7 is now at 1.21%, which is within 4 hundredths of a percent to Opera 12. 

Browser death is a good good thing. It should be celebrated and often opens up new features to developers. Over on html5please.com we have a menu which lets you see what features are now available to you, as you kill off support for older browsers.

I'll likely make some noise about IE7 as they drop beneath Opera and head towards 1%. Just back in April, IE7 was the predominant boat-anchor browser for folks. I think they may lulled into an IE6-like complacency and have forgotten to check their stats.

[Frances Berriman]

I don't like campaigns like this at all. They penalise folks too
harshly who don't have a choice, or don't understand what's going on.
That particular campaign freely acknowledges in it's text that people
"don't know how to upgrade" but makes no attempt to help those people
past actively talking to people you know in person - which, frankly,
you could do anyway. The /upgrade page makes a lot of assumptions
about users knowledge (like knowing what a browser is and why you'd
want a better one).

There was another one recently - I forget who - charging people an
extra "tax" on their purchase if they were using IE6 or 7. Blergh.

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