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BBC reports on phasing out of IE6

9th February 2010 @ 10:43am

The BBC website is reporting that British Government departments are being encouraged to phase out Microsoft's Web Browser IE6.

IE6 has been superceded twice by Microsoft with new versions of Internet Explorer, namely IE7 and IE8. Therefore many of the 'bugs' or problems inherent in the browser are no longer supported or likely to be sorted. This has lead Internet giant Google to announce that it is phasing out support for the out of date Internet browser.

Some people still use the system and for this reason, Formoda spend a great deal of time ensuring that the websites we develop work in IE6. However in addition to the time this takes, it often means that we have to re-create (or even break) systems to make them work in the out of date Internet browser.

In France and Germany the Governments have encouraged their citizens to switch to (allegedly) more secure browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Formoda would like to encourage our clients to do the same or upgrade to Microsoft's latest version IE8. We will then all be able to move forward together with Internet Browsers which work properly and do what they were supposed to do.

The full story can be found at the BBC Technology website.