Facebook’s new design on IE6 – Doesn’t Exist

Posted on: July 24, 2008 at 6:47 am | Posted under: Social Networking, Technology
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My buddy Brian went to view the new Facebook design on IE6 on his computer at work.  The problem, it won’t load!  He got a funny message from Facebook telling him that they are not cool enough to support his browser.  Check out the photo he grabbed with his phone and sent to me.  I had to share this, because it means that either Facebook needs to become backwards compatible with their new design or he just needs to upgrade his browser :)

What are your thoughts?

Cheers!

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Nov 17, 2008 - 02:11:13
chris said:

i think this is a great step in the right direction. Just like php4, we need to just move forward and just ditch the old technology. Being a developer myself, i cringe at the thought of having to test under ie6. With a big company like Facebook dropping the support for ie6 is like a sweet christmas gift for us developers. The trend will be followed.

Nov 28, 2008 - 03:11:11

Our software company no longer supports IE6. We find supporting this browser adds 30-40% of time to our production process for sites built on the Smallbox CMS platform. It’s about time that the world moves on and upgrades.

Jan 1, 2009 - 12:01:49
Miles said:

Good news, at least! Let’s all ditch IE6.

Jan 29, 2009 - 10:01:15
Simon said:

That’s fantastic! Hopefully if Facebook forces people to upgrade we can start to ignore IE6, which just causes *so* many problems.

Jan 30, 2009 - 01:01:13
Michael said:

It’s funny that Internet Explorer isn’t even listed as a browser that you can “keep it real with.”

Apr 24, 2009 - 01:04:12
Paul said:

Since Facebook has big money now, they can do this. Lets say you have a company and 10 – 20% of your users use IE6 (even 5%), would you turn your users away. Think of all the revenue you would lose.

Personally, I wouldn’t be so rude but it is funny. I would nudge them in the right direction but this anti-M$ is ridiculous.

If it wasn’t for M$, some of these people who spent their money on the these companies wouldn’t. Remember when 90% of the people used windows and spent thousands on all these anti M$ companies?

Remember, Karma is a bitch.

Apr 25, 2009 - 10:04:26
Susie said:

I haven’t got the foggiest what you are all on about so I think I will be ok to view new facebook design!!

Apr 25, 2009 - 10:04:58
darkyndy said:

very good work for facebook, just think if all site’s will do this, it will be a better online-world :D

Apr 25, 2009 - 10:04:43
ivo said:

Hurray for facebook! Another big step against IE6.. great!
Either you’re using IE6 because you have a illegal version of Windows (why should a website support that?), or you’re at work and have lame sysops (and you shouldn’t use facebook at work anyhow).

Jul 23, 2009 - 03:07:28
John said:

Now it's the Youtube turn to drop IE6, see here:
http://jerusalemstyle.com/blog/dropping-ie6-no-...

Aug 15, 2009 - 06:08:24
Nithin Bekal said:

I'm delighted at the news. It's about time we stopped wasting time on IE6.

Nov 10, 2009 - 12:11:28
nokfarang001 said:
Nov 24, 2009 - 08:11:01

I wouldn't be so rude but it is funny.

Dec 8, 2009 - 02:12:48
itjobs1 said:

Good news, at least! Let's all ditch IE6.
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Jan 15, 2010 - 06:01:09

Remember when 90% of the people used windows and spent thousands on all these anti M$ companies?

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Petya Noname said:

I think it's right to kill IE6, may be microsoft will develop smth to reinstall all old browsers)

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