SaveIE6.com: Best viewed in Opera

August 19, 2011 · by Espen André Øverdahl

Here's a campaign out of the ordinary: What started out as an April Fool's Joke quickly turned into The SaveIE6 campaign. It's all about showing the world the benefits of using the web browser IE6. Due to the tremendous interest, the campaign is still alive and kicking.

SaveIE6.com: Best viewed in Opera.

We thoroughly enjoyed reading through petition buzz, including CEOs, marketing managers and "superfans". Which is your favorite? Make one of your own?

Kudos Furie for making us aware of this campaign!

Readers' comments 15

Left under the original article, as archived.

TamilFriday, August 19, 2011 2:29:30 PM
You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using opera, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition.
Zdenko TimulakFriday, August 19, 2011 2:29:57 PM
Cool ...
Swapnil RustagiFriday, August 19, 2011 3:05:45 PM
Just see the jokes written on this page

http://saveie6.com/why.php

"Proven technology. It’s been around since 2001."
Just the opposite is the truth.

"NO bugs."
WOW! What a nice joke?

"Highly secure (has received lots of security updates)."
The world's most insecure browser is now highly secure, ha ha.

"Used by 97.34% of all internet users according to a onestat survey released July 28, 2003."
Isn't it 2011 now? Anyone knows?
AercyFriday, August 19, 2011 3:05:49 PM
IE6 is the only website browser that should be around. I don't know what all this buzz is about that Firefork website viewer thing, or that Oprah browser. I knew she did a talk show and all but web browsers? Get off my interwebs!

ad this...

Well it's obvious surely. IE6 is clearly a step ahead. I miss typewriters too.

haha
Daniel AnghelFriday, August 19, 2011 3:09:09 PM
trololololol...
Charles SchlossFriday, August 19, 2011 3:29:44 PM
lol

only 2000 some vs Opera over 40 million users
d4rkn1ghtFriday, August 19, 2011 5:13:11 PM
sirnh1Friday, August 19, 2011 5:22:04 PM
Get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6

Yeah, that's going to happen any second now
Yusuf, Isiaka UmarFriday, August 19, 2011 8:05:45 PM
This is the @ne, TRUELY.
NimeshFriday, August 19, 2011 8:42:06 PM
Check the download link.

I got the output:
Unfortunately some of your answers were incompatible with proper IE6 usage which means that we weren’t able to provide you with a download link.

Please try again, it will be worth it!
VicFriday, August 19, 2011 10:21:23 PM
Face it -- these days, IE6 is at most a piece of museum, to show new generations how rudimentary were browsers and the Internet in the past. Web browsers are now much more secure, fullfeatured, customizable, ergonomic, and why not, entertaining than IE 6-9. And faster, of course.
AsiresSaturday, August 20, 2011 10:32:50 AM
"Are you working for a newspaper in Norway?"
OPERATORSaturday, August 20, 2011 7:11:38 PM
Save all İEs
mozilaMonday, August 22, 2011 11:54:36 AM
JulianTuesday, August 30, 2011 5:37:50 AM
This site reminds me of a quote from Albert Einstein "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

CSS is dumb and I love bluish grey .png backgrounds!!

I'm wondering what will be the opinion of Mr Håkon Wium Lie about that.

Coding for IE6 teaches us valuable lessons, like patience and perseverance!
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Sure and increases your blood pressure, cholesterol, stress and traumas too.