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To IE6 or NOT

Here at Digg, like most sites, the designers, developers, and QA engineers spend a lot of time making sure the site works in IE6, an eight-year-old browser superseded by two full releases. It consumes time that could be spent building the future of Digg. Here’s what we’re gonna do — and not do — about it.
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Should Digg prompt IE6 users to upgrade?
A message suggesting the IE6 user upgrade seems like a logical approach. Then we wondered, “With a number of sites showing upgrade messages to IE6 users, why haven’t they already upgraded?” To find out, we ran a message to IE6 users on Digg asking, “Have 45 seconds? Help Digg by taking a quick three question survey
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via blog.digg.com

I'm sure many of us who work on the web face this question everyday. One option for us at Directi was to show an upgrade option. But from what it looks like, people stuck with using !E6 don't have a choice.. if you see the image above of a survey Digg conducted where they asked IE6 user to upgrade, most said they cannot upgrade, they don’t have a choice. Three out of four IE6 users on Digg said they can’t upgrade due to some technical or workplace reason. Thus giving them this option is almost pointless?

Hat Tip: Sarfaraz

The Google Chrome OS: Stuff that got my Attention

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
via googleblog.blogspot.com