If you have ever designed a website or blog, you must have faced the tantrums of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), the version that shipped with Windows XP and earlier versions.

Several Norwegian websites started a spring cleaning on the Web--getting rid of IE6 and make the tubes clog-free for a better future. They are using a code to display a message and persuade visitors switch to a newer, improved version of IE or other alternative browsers.

Several websites across the world have joined the campaign to get rid of this horrendous dinosaur. One such campaign is called Bring Down IE6, an initiative by .net magazine. A wiki has also come up for spreading the campaign. This is what it says on why we should dump IE6.

Internet Explorer are currently stalling innovation and stopping web developers from creating solutions that we don't even understand ourselves before it's gone. As an example we can imagine how highways was being built, but not before steam powered cars had gone extinct.

Why does IE6 still exists? A large number of people still use Windows XP or older versions that ships with IE6. Many of them use pirated Windows, forcing them to stick to their clunky, default browser. If they try to download and install latest version of IE, they are dettered by Microsoft's authenticity check. [However, Internet Exlorer 7 gets downloaded and installed even on pirated versions of Windows XP.]

Many of them have switched to latest version of other browsers, but a significant number of them haven't even experienced the improved versions of IE, Firefox or other browsers. Had they experienced a newer browser, they would have surely shifted to Firefox, Opera or Safari.

Some unfortunate people, as Download Squad pointed out, are tied to IE6 due to Windows 2000. Some information technology departments are dumb enoough to continue with the Web designer's nightmare.

But the kind of success being garnered by these ant-IE6 website, I sincirely believe that soon there will be no IE6, expect for on a freshly installed Windows XP or older versions.