A long awaited revolution has begun. The most popular websites on the Internet are beginning to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6.
We now advise our customers that support for IE6 is an unnecessary expense that they can do without. We get around providing IE6 support by displaying a warning on our websites (including this site) that is displayed only if the visitor is using IE6.
Show your support now for dropping IE6 support by signing up here:
http://idroppedie6.com/
We dropped mainstream support for IE6 a long time ago – although we do still cater for it upon specific request (at extra cost – because of the time required to tweak, test, tweak, test).
In some ways it’s a bit of a vicious circle – because people still use IE6, there is demand for support – which means that people continue to use it.
It’s great to see large sites finally taking a stand and starting to ditch it completely – if enough momentum is picked up, we might finally see some movement in the corporate environments which insist on retaining it..
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