How To Drop Support For IE6 Users
Apple and 37signals had announced to drop support for IE6. It has inspired a lot of developers (especially, the followers) to follow them. IE6 is different from all other (modern) browsers. It’s an old badly developed browser which requires a lot of attention from developer resulting in hours of extra work.
You can use the combination of javascript and SaveTheDevelopers to drop support for IE.
Insert the following code just before your </head> tag to drop support for all versions of msie less than or equal to IE6.
Last Updated: July 09, 2008
While I would love to drop support for IE6 on websites I think it entirely depends on the market to which your site is geared. If you have users that are older or non-tech savvy they are more likely to be using older browser’s. Take my wife for example, the only reason updates get installed is because I pick up her laptop to surf while watching her crappy girly movies. She would not have IE7 or FF3 or the latest updates without a tech savvy husband. I repeatedly scold her for this but she just doesn’t care. By dropping support for IE6 you could be dropping customers, like my 25 year old wife with $ to spend.
As said I plan to drop it on some sites as I see the usership of it move below acceptable % and total numbers. I pray for the day that this discussion is not even in our heads.
Yes, I have dropped my plan to drop support for IE6. It just depends on your market. Since, I am mostly a developer, I need to show my potential clients that I can develop for IE6.
Thanks for your comment. I am grateful!