witness the end of IE

Last month come up with 2 pleasant surprises:

• The percentage of visitors of my site that use Microsoft Internet Explorer dropped from 60% up to 46.2%, thus passed below the 50% barrier.

• As a consequence of the first point I am seriously considering using the scripts of Explorer Destroyer to achieve the goal of less than 25% of IE users on my site.

The script is still a little bit too intrusive and I don’t want in any way make the Web surfing unpleasant for those users who freely chose to use IE: they have as much right to use IE as I have to use Firefox. However I would like to “rescue” those newbies that doesn’t know that there are other explorers beyond IE and I really don’t like to twitch my pages in order to work around IE’s bugs.

Even if I am not a professional web-designer, I don’t like to check my own web pages against the database of IE bugs.

When I say I would like to get rid of IE it means the end of IE as in IE is not standard compliant and not the end of Microsoft’s product. In fact if Microsoft want to write a browser they can do it, as soon as it is standard compliant or the naïves non-geek users know exactly what they are doing using it.