Campbell Interactive

Am I mistaken, or was I not barraged by update notices at the end of `06 as Microsoft pushed out IE7?

Was I the only one?

I look at my stats and while I fully admit it is no great cross section of the internet public over a quarter of the visitors to my site are still on IE 6 and I even had one IE version 5 visitor while IE7 counted for only 7%. There can’t still be an active copy of IE5 being used by choice can there? If you are out there my friend please send word on how we can reach you, how we can help, somehow we will find a way to get a link to you, so you can see the world in color.

Now before you guys start giving me grief know that I am just kidding around, I’m not the kind of person that would sit on high and scoff at the people kind enough to take the time to visit this little space on the web because of their browser, at least not with any malicious intent. I tried to make sure that this site fell together on IE6 much the same way it does in Firefox, Safari, and IE7 truthfully because I haven’t upgraded either. The IE7 I have on my machine is the standalone hack. I ignored those pleas from the great northwest to abandon the obsolescence of IE6 primarily because I believed this would be the case, that regardless of their push it would persist beyond all attempts to thwart its evil reign and I have to know that what I build works in it.

Then again perhaps that’s why I see these visitors in IE6 to begin with. Maybe you are like me someone who develops for the web and has been reluctant to upgrade and unlike I choose to surf in your copy of IE6 rather than Firefox or something comparable. That would be funny wouldn’t it. We all sit in our little worlds studying our stats to watch what we should control for in our work and we ourselves perpetuate the idea that this browser still haunts us because we can’t abandoned it.

Maybe, maybe not. I guess we’ll just have to click along much like we are until IE6 dwindles to where we gasp in awe at that one visitor who just won’t let go.