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Save the Developers is gone

By Ryan on November 19, 2008

Microsoft now has their own Internet Explorer 6 Countdown. It doesn’t offer an embeddable solution, but it certainly looks nice.

Save the Developers is gone. savethedevelopers.org now redirects to Microsoft (Get IE 7 or IE 8 Beta).

Save the Developers Pop-down

Save the Developers Pop-down

I used to have a little save the developers image on my homepage for ifupdown, but I doubt that it’ll work now as all traffic is redirected to Microsoft.

That’s pretty sad. A little site that stood up to Microsoft’s lame duck browser was eaten by Microsoft. Does anyone have any information on this? I searched around but there wasn’t a blog anywhere that said anything about this at all.

Rest In Piece, Save the Developers.

Read my recent post about the return of Save the Developers.

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Ryan recently completed his first semester at the University of Minnesota in the College of Science & Engineering and is pursuing his degree in Computer Science. He's a fledgling web developer, a technology enthusiast, a potential podcaster. In his spare time, he reads the newest science fiction, listens to podcasts and organizes his office and studio. You should find him on Google+, Twitter, Facebook and on his podcast network over at The-Nexus.TV.

5 responses to “Save the Developers is gone”

  1. Micah
    Micah December 22, 2008 at 10:31 am | | Reply

    Yeah, that sux. I was just about to drop that in on a site I’m working on. We redesigned everything which broke all the IE6 hax we had. I need someone to save me :(

  2. Mariano
    Mariano January 22, 2009 at 2:43 pm | | Reply

    We just started to redirect IE6 users to an error page in our project because of the ajax and DOM manipulation lack of compatibility it has.

    About the save the developers website, its a shame. :(

  3. Pradeep CD
    Pradeep CD May 18, 2009 at 11:38 pm | | Reply

    http://www.friskdesign.com/2009/04/20/why-i-support-ie6/

    1. Ryan
      Ryan May 18, 2009 at 11:44 pm | | Reply

      IE6 support will never be dropped really. If users can see things in a reasonable manner with most of the accessibility intact, I’ll leave it at that. I don’t mind of organizations can or can’t use another browser. As long as users know the difference between Firefox and IE and aware there may be features missing in one during their visit, I’m fine with them using an inferior browser.

  4. Jason Gill
    Jason Gill June 11, 2009 at 2:26 pm | | Reply

    There is a god! http://ie6update.com/

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