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Finally, Change I Can Believe In: Save the Developers

By EAN ⋅ March 26, 2008 ⋅  Email this Post ⋅  Print this Post ⋅ Post a Comment

I’m not the type of guy who likes to blindly follow charities and other non profit organizations, and general causes that much of America likes to rally around. Protect the environment? Save the whales? Feed the hungry? Those are all well and good–but I’ll let someone else fight the fight for me.

All that changed when I discovered Save the Developers, a group with one simple goal in mind. Help people finally escape from that which plagues the web, Internet Explorer 6. Can you actually believe that 30% of the populace still uses that garbage? Disgraceful.

Call me lazy, call me stubborn, but I’ve dabbled in a bit of web design (and development), and I simply refuse to develop for IE 6. Software Battle could look like crap on the aging browser (and it probably does with my overzealous use of transparent png images). I don’t know, and I don’t care. Internet Explorer 6 is dead to me. And apparently I’m not alone.

Save the Developers’ goal at this point is simply to “Say no to IE 6″–but I say they need to take it one step further. Say no to any browser that breaks the web. It’s not like there aren’t any other options out there. Firefox, Safari, Opera, Flock. All fine options. And painless to switch to. Opera even passes the Acid 3 test as of today.

Of course, 75% of my visitors are Firefox users, so I suppose I’m preaching to the choir.

[via TechCrunch]