IE6 denial message for Momentile.com

This was such a fun project -- this is what users of Internet Explorer 6 see when they visit Momentile.

You can see sketches and a bit of the process on my website.

UPDATE:
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pilipo says:

very funny
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

eliohouse says:

hahah cute
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

frank-chimero says:

Brilliant.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

velouria! says:

This is terrific! One of my favourites that you've done!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Brian Everett / EVRT Studio says:

Absolutely awesome! I hope you don't mind, but I blogged this: evrt.tumblr.com/post/123960276
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

OldManMusings says:

Clever!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Alex Giron says:

Hah! so true. :)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Annamazon says:

Love it!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

lamdogjunkie says:

Genius!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

roctopus says:

Brilliant :D
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

just tom says:

i'd think they'd want to hang out with IE8 instead of 7...
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

John Holdun says:

Most people using IE6 don’t know they’re using IE6. They don’t know the difference between Yahoo! and the internet. This would just be extremely confusing and frustrating to them.

That said, it's adorable and quite clever.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

kingbeecreative says:

Faboo, as always. I especially like the faces/expressions on the treehouse steps.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

John Martz says:

Thanks, folks.

John Holdun, in context the actual page asks visitors to upgrade their browser.

Kingbeecreative, I hadn't noticed any faces in the ladder; purely coincidental!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

John Holdun says:

Ah. Well, I guess that's better. :)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

noluckmurphy says:

No surprise IE6 is a one-tooth jackass.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

tbinte says:

Hilarious!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

mike burnard says:

so very awesome
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

.schill says:

Best browser humour illustration yet.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

miss linotte says:

haha i love it
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

水 Stormchild says:

Awesome.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

josh agerstrand / ladrones says:

man- i laffed so hard.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Bringo says:

lovely! well done!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

tilaneseven says:

Very cool :D
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

br4inwash3r says:

LOL
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

tres.jolie says:

So clever!!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

eric.andersen says:

Very clever! Now you just need to add Google Chrome!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

smncameron says:

If they haven't upgraded their browser they're probably not too tech-savy. Maybe provide a link?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Walter Alvarez says:

Great job!!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Aaron Miller says:

Love this, great textures too!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

GonzaloGM says:

Hahah this is awesome!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Travis Cripps says:

That is epic!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

jessibird says:

Made my day!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Myfacefriends.com says:

lovely and very clever! cheers! yeah you need to add Chrome
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Ottoman42 says:

Extremely funny! Very clever and wonderfully drawn!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

JustinLowery.com says:

This rocks! It would be cool if you did a version with Chrome also... :) But great as it is. Nice work!

Down with IE!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Kevon Garcia [deleted] says:

Ha ha I had a good laugh. Very creative lol.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

juarezpaf says:

huahuauha Really cool! It's my official Desktop Background right now! :)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Sami Niemelä says:

muahahaaha lovin' the IE6 stubble. Good work man!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Francis Storr says:

Weird, we run IE6 at work and I don't see that screen at all.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Suitov says:

Gracefuldegradationfail....... but humourWIN.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

cHrIzZz PhotoBlog says:

really cool & funny :]
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

snoopa says:

lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

samwild says:

haha, great :D a true portrayal of browser hatred!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Nicosmos says:

Excellent ! :D
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

teh_nebelschwade says:

Abolutely brilliant.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

saforrest says:

Hmm, a very funny cartoon, though I just tried momentile.com with IE6 (which I've hung on to for testing purposes) and don't see this image.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Atomos says:

IE6, Why?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

georgemoga says:

very funny :)) (and true)
I would change only 2 things:
- include Google Chrome;
- use IE8 instead of 7.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Emil Säll says:

brilliant.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

erifneerg says:

LOL, would love a wallpaper size version.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

zxgirl says:

Excellent, and sadly true!!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Madrobby says:

Super awesome, thanks!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

wrybit says:

Genius! :)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Galen Wilk says:

Truly a great idea.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Lars Pohlmann says:

hahaha!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

caldaean says:

Awesome!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

jamesjoh says:

Thumbs up!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Kyle Jones says:

ahahaha
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

timhickman says:

Magic!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

fusionlab says:

That's great - subtle and funny.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

pauldwaite says:

Now I feel sorry for IE 6, what are you doing to me
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

keep your fork, there's pie! says:

who doesn't like tabs? seriously...time to pull the plug. Great graphic!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

manop says:

Go Home IE6!

That's funny.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Natanael_L says:

Totally awesome!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

charlotte.efren says:

Cool and funny! Keep it up.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

eldamar.se says:

well done! can you make this into wallpaper res 1920*1200?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

ShyWolf says:

Very cool. Mind if we hang it up on our office wall, in the webdev corner?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

cory [ ϟ ] Tha Goodson says:

thats funny, unfortunaly at work that's all i get to see since we arent allowed to update our browser.. oh well.. lol
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

John Martz says:

Hey folks, those wishing to use it on their own sites, the image is now under a Creative Commons license.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Bods says:

Sorry to spoil the love in but as someone viewing on a work PC which is enforced to use IE6 and who can't physically upgrade it because his PC is locked down...

Okay so I also have Firefox and use that all the time, but most of my colleagues don't and we as a web development community can do nothing more damaging to our users than assume that people can upgrade when they can't.

It's entirely up to site owners to do what they want on their sites (I do on mine) but don't blame the user...
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

miss linotte says:

@bods
i don't understand why people comment on this complaining about not being able to update the browser! This is a commissioned illustration that
John did for a company, he has no responsibility or control of how anyone runs their website & what browsers they optimise it for.
I'm not saying it's not a problem but this is the wrong person to complain to. He just did a funny & brilliant illustration! :-)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

.schill says:

Many large companies are still using IE 6, but the amount of "support" for them is still dropping nonetheless - particularly with new web sites, start-ups etc. (Related: State Of The Browsers: IE edition, by PPK of QuirksMode.) It is interesting to note that IE 6 peaks during work hours, suggesting indeed that corporations are the ones hanging on to this browser for "mission-critical" internal/internet apps, and so on.

Given IE 6, released in 2001, is a full two release versions behind the current release, calling it old is certainly fair. It introduces extra development and support costs, and compared to the newest browsers is significantly slower (and less-secure), et cetera.

Granted I'm preaching to the choir here, for the most part, but I agree it's not time to completely ditch support for IE 6 yet. (We continue to support it as an "A-grade" browser at Yahoo!, for the record.)

In the future and as market/user share continues to drop, I can see IE 6 being eventually given degraded (but usable) CSS and a simplified design/experience, especially on brand-new web sites, vs. trying to add hacks to make the layout work. Alternately, there are also ideas like Universal IE 6 CSS which suggests something along these lines and may be interesting reading.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

gis <3 says:

Amazing! :D
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

. Guz . says:

haha I love it!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Bods says:

I'm not saying it's not a great illustration. Cos it is. And I'm not accusing one person of wrongdoing. It's just a wider problem and the wrong message is going out. And I'm sorry if I've offended people.

For me all this actually needed was the website to put a better message at the top. "Sorry - but your browser can't cope with our site. Here's why..."

But instead the standard approach seems to just be - and this is a wider issue beyond one site - "Oh just upgrade".
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

cozycabbage says:

Yeah, this was drawn recently! Where's Chrome? Or is the new kid on the block not invited to the treehouse?

There'll be a sitcom about it, and Chrome will eventually become part of the group. The show will air for three seasons before its popularity will wane.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

miss linotte says:

@bods
no offense taken at all, and yes, you're right! i'm all for user-friendliness :-)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

. Guz . says:

Uh, good point! Where's Chrome?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

falleri says:

I love it! Much better than my stupid little message. But I don't want to take the whole site down for IE6 users, even though there's not that many visiting my site.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

og2t // ou gee tew tee says:

this is great! btw. look at this www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

falleri says:

Is that for real?! What the heck? So odd!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Danilo Prates says:

hahaha so good! f**k ie6!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

oleg.skl says:

Ouahhhahaha! Hilarious!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Râu K says:

i'm IE6, plz plz :))
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

yaarik says:

Awesome!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

picale says:

hahaha, great!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Elze Kool says:

It's now hanging on my wall ;-) Great!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

foodchronicles says:

This should be a Momentile shirt option! I'd definitely buy this one! Great job!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

atdubya says:

I like that 'Safari' is the most unabashedly angry toward IE 6.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Guilherme Frederico says:

Fantastic, congratilations!!!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Chud Tsankov Illustrations says:

Fabulous!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Arakin says:

I love it! Well done :)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

ednevitable says:

love it!!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

@cdharrison says:

Can't believe no one's mentioned that the full-size image is 1337px wide. Another small detail that's full of win :)

I adore this illustration. :)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

dcdomain says:

Ah I didn't get the 1337px until cd.harrison mentioned it. I second the comment about Chrome.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Jacop Kane says:

why ie6 illustration is so cute..i wanna kill him
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

dzovan says:

This is awesome!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

BabetteKD says:

Love it! Followed a link here from Hawkster on Twitter, fyi ♥
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

chicagoscooterclub says:

I really like it, but shouldn't IE6 be an Old man and the others be punk kids on his lawn egging his house with ajax?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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