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I'm dubious that any campaign of this sort could be anything other than marginally effective. The real holdouts that I'm worried about aren't staying with IE6 out of ignorance, it's a matter of financial necessity. Internal and business-specific apps are holding back a lot of these upgrades. If you have to choose between a $50,000+ development investment and staying on an outdated browser, most IT departments are going to maintain the status quo.

This is why I think Chrome Frame is such a good solution- you get all the benefits of a modern browser, without having to immediately invest in updates to essential apps. Of course this also runs the risk of being (understandably) stymied by Microsoft marketing FUD.

::sigh::



Chrome Frame is great, but there needs to be an official, Microsoft-blessed "IE6 frame" to deal with this. From what I understand, the compatibility mode in IE8 isn't good enough. People need to move onto the new browser and use a modern rendering engine by default instead of retrofitting the old browser.


Yes, it would certainly be nice if the problem was solved from both sides.




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