When do we cut support for ie6?
IE7 was released in January of 2006, and yet 55% of IE users are still using version 6. This is despite ie6’s horrid, and I mean horrid standards support, and the fact that it’s seven years old and just outright incompetent overall.
“But Brian, Why upgrade? All your sites still look fine in ie6.” Yeah, because I spent painstaking hours making it that way.
The worst part is the vicious cyclicality of it all. Site owners don’t care about standards; they just want it to work. They pay the developer’s bills, so we’re forced to make a site work in a browser when, well… it shouldn’t. Through our own blood, sweat and tears we developers perpetuate the viability of the unviable, because, what incentive does a surfer have to upgrade to ie7 or Firefox when all the sites still work fine in 6?
At what point does support cease for this incompliant and out-of-date browser? At what point do we break the cycle? Soon, I hope.
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one:
- http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/trash-all-ie-hacks/
- http://f6design.com/journal/2007/08/07/time-to-ditch-ie6-support-already/
- http://www.adamfortuna.com/2007/05/23/time-to-drop-ie-6/
If you’re viewing this in ie6, shame on you. Get Firefox, or at the very least, update to IE7. You’ll thank me later.
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