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In early 2009 we made the decision that ExpressionEngine 2.0 will not support Internet Explorer 6. Its an issue we wrestled with from the very beginning and at first we committed to it. But when it came up again we decided to put our foot into IE6’s backside and show it the door.

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Does it not work at all (i.e. Javascript issues) or is it CSS and would someone be able to customize the CP-theme?

Does it not work at all (i.e. Javascript issues) or is it CSS and would someone be able to customize the CP-theme?

It will probably work in some fashion but it will not be supported at all. What works will work and what won’t, won’t. An enterprising person/team who wanted to make an IE6 compatible 2.0 CP theme probably could accomplish it, we’re just not going to do it first party. IE6 is from technology past, 2.0 is about the present and the years to come.

Cool!
Am redesigning my own site and dumping IE6 also. Have just had enough of it.
Luckily, I’m not interested in govt/edu clients. And not interested in other clients living 5 years in the past either.

Thanks for that Les. I’m glad that Ellis is being open about their decisions and letting people know up front.

FWIW, 12% of our users on eCalc (a EE powered site) are still using IE6.

FWIW, 12% of our users on eCalc (a EE powered site) are still using IE6.

Site visitors or people using the control panel?

These are just visitors that use our online application.

These are just visitors that use our online application.

Then they would be unaffected by this; it’s only in reference to whether or not the control panel will support IE6.

Understood, just giving a datapoint to the community here for our particular demographic.

Understood, just giving a datapoint to the community here for our particular demographic.

Righto.  We’re at 11% for our sites as well 2% for IE6.  The 11% is all versions of IE combined. :-D

Can I just ask what exactly is this IE6 everyone keeps on going on about?

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Jus’ kiddin’. I think this is a fantastic move and I’m really glad that you’ve done it. Hopefully more and more great developers will take heed and head in that direction too.

EllisLab 10 - IE6 0!! :-D

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks for the clarification. We’ve got 52% IE users and of those 22% are IE6.  (also 33% FF, 10% safari).

Hear hear! Bye bye and good riddance.

I think this is a great move. Honestly what I’m wondering is when this sort of “move” will be non-news.

How long until ie6 is just dead.