No More Support For IE 6

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No More Support For IE 6

Posted on 06 Jan 2009 by - - meta

Just a short note to let you know that I won't be battling against Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 when developing this website any longer. The number of visitors using the browser has been steadily dropping over the past year and recent security advisories have brought the matter to a head.

Graph of IE 6 visits versus total visits

The end of IE 6 support also applies to customer sites unless specifically requested. We do support the following browsers:

Firefox 2 & 3
Internet Explorer 7 & 8
Safari & Webkit
Opera 9 & 10
Konquerer

Further browsers can be supported on request.

There was a campaign to hasten the demise of the awful browser about six months ago, called Save The Developers but they appear to have sold out now because the site redirects to microsoft.com. So no support from me.

What do you think? Am I being premature with ending support or is it a sensible move? The nasty CSS hacks will be removed from the site soon.

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3 Comments

Zane DeFazio said at 2009-01-08 17:39

Is it premature?

I say more power to you. I wish the high traffic sites would look into dropping IE6 support and starting the "cool new trend" to force people to upgrade.

MMMeeja said at 2009-01-08 18:29

Re: Is it premature?

Thanks for your feedback, Zane.

I hope that with the launch of Windows 7, a lot of high traffic sites will see a big drop in the number of visitors using IE6 and follow suit.

Zane DeFazio said at 2009-01-08 18:48

Re Re: Is it premature?

Until then developers/designers are still pretty much screwed.

On a side note I hope Windows 7 is great. I don't want to jump to Apple branded equipment/software and I dislike The GIMP so Linux is out. Hell, I'll run Windows XP as long as I possibly can if it comes down to it.

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