February 2, 2010 IE6 Support
Development, News We've been watching the debate over whether modern designers should create web sites and web applications that continue to support Internet Explorer 6 as they continue to develop and learn methods of content delivery. We've often leaned toward the side that cuts off support for IE6 altogether, but there are several major, respectable players on the side that say it should continue to be supported. When it comes to our own "policy", we haven't had to create or enforce one as most of our clients don't use IE6 and apparently don't have many friends that do either, for we rarely hear "this is broken in IE6..." from anyone.
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(enlarge)However, two things have prompted us to take a step in the direction of phasing out support for IE6: the latest Net Applications monthly usage share figures and Google's own phasing out of support for IE6.
Rather than write a tome on the reasons for and against and why we've chosen one over the other, we're just going to state the inevitable:
As of July 2010, we will no longer offer support for Internet Explorer 6, meaning we will not be bug fixing or hacking our sites so that IE6 displays them properly. The web has moved on, major players like Google have moved on , even MicroSoft has moved on and no longer supports IE6. It's time we move on as well.
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Reader Comments (2)
Here's a good article where the author finds out the reasons why companies still stick with IE6. Very illuminating:
http://itexpertvoice.com/ad/why-you-cant-pry-ie6-out-of-their-cold-dead-hands/
Thanks Lola. Good reading.
Having spent some years in a Fortune 100 company, I guessed almost to the letter the reasons given. If some companies wish to continue using IE6 for all those reasons (and probably more), good for them. But they won't be asking us for business, because we won't support it.
And that's okay with us, for it's business we don't want. It is perhaps sacrilegious to say such a thing given that "business" is really a — or rather the— only sacrament in American public life, but we're okay with that, too.
Bottom line: our energies are better spent moving forward. We'll support the technologies behind us when they are at arms length, but there are no arms here can or will span a decade.