Save A Developer. Upgrade Your Browser.

I recently came across a website with a distinct cause, one that I support 100%. That site is savethedevelopers.org and their purpose is to improve the health of developers across the world by decreasing the stress involved in developing cross-browser compatible websites.

For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about when I say cross-browser compatibility. Web browsers, like Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari and Opera read code, the code that web developers create. Each web browser renders the code differently, basically converting the text into a website you can view and interact with. Cross-browser compatibility is basically developing a website or web application that operates properly on all of the major browsers. Here is the major problem, Internet Explorer 6 never played by the rules, the rules in place to make it easier for developers to make one website that looks and works the same on all browsers.

Here we are nearly 2 years since Internet Explorer 7's release and roughly 25% of all of the internet users in the world still us IE 6. Which leads us to the purpose of savethedevelopers.org is to decrease that percentage to a number that would allow developers to spend less time focusing on making their website cross-browser compatible and more time on features that enrich and improve the user's experience.

You can help the cause like I did, by visiting the site and copying code onto your site that will prompt users browsing with IE 6 to upgrade their browser. So that leaves me with my closing statement...

Save a Developer. Upgrade Your Browser.