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I’m all for cutting edge designs in the sample site.
I think I can hear where you are coming from (I know I can), it’s not worth the effort and in some cases sacrifice. Or building IE6 versions, hacks etc.
It’s hard enough debugging the leading edge browsers, and keeping up with future changes.
Is that what about IE5.5 Mac, lol.

across my bigger sites i am seeing a standard of 78% plus IE… consumer ones have about 10-15% IE6 and below. Government / Medical Sites are seeing 40% IE6 and below…
However, front end is up to me… Back-end i am happy to enforce such a standard and explain why!

Oh and still finger tapping in anticipation for more info! 2.0 FAQ coming soon i heard? Have i missed it?

Oh and still finger tapping in anticipation for more info! 2.0 FAQ coming soon i heard? Have i missed it?

In the works!

Best. Update. Ever.

You all have some hutzpah, moxie, gumption, and grit.

We’ve all been waiting for IE6 to die already. Thanks for helping us start the nails in the coffin!

This launched on April fools: www.saveie6.com

Just thought I would share!

*cough* PHP4 *cough* gorilla *cough*

Whoops, I didn’t say anything.  Must have been the wind.  😉

As long as the EE 2.0 goodness works with Safari goodness, I’ll be more than happy to lend my foot to the IE6 rear-kicking party.

Good riddance!

PJ

good choice! 😊

John Fuller: yeah, well CI is still a PHP4 framework so I guess that’d have to go first ...

- bjorn

What’s IE6? Something to eat?

...oh well i’m not even hungry for that supper!

good choice! 😊

John Fuller: yeah, well CI is still a PHP4 framework so I guess that’d have to go first ...

- bjorn

CI has a PHP4 and a PHP5 base and your CI applications can be PHP5 only if you choose.  And if you get right down to it, if you’re choosing PHP5, you’re going to be choosing version >= 5.2, which gives you about a 10% possible share of the available market.  The comparison doesn’t hold water, unless we were announcing that 2.0’s control panel only worked with 10% of available browsers.

This is a good decision. If more sites were forcing IE6 out, then maybe it would be gone already. There are just way too many businesses still using it. Of course, Microsoft is much to blame for that. I think a lot of businesses are just afraid to upgrade anything Microsoft related after Vista and Office 2007. I’ve had Office 2007 for quite a while now and, although I don’t use it much, I still struggle to find what should be the most simple of things. I can only imagine the lost productivity for businesses.

This is a good decision. If more sites were forcing IE6 out, then maybe it would be gone already. There are just way too many businesses still using it. Of course, Microsoft is much to blame for that. I think a lot of businesses are just afraid to upgrade anything Microsoft related after Vista and Office 2007. I’ve had Office 2007 for quite a while now and, although I don’t use it much, I still struggle to find what should be the most simple of things. I can only imagine the lost productivity for businesses.

Though being the popular scapegoat i’m not sure all the blame can be put to MS, bearing in mind they slid this into windows updqate quite seamlessly. Rolling out an IE update to the network should be, and is, a piece of cake. Too many ‘IT’ depts/managers are either just too lazy/ill-informed/paranoid to make the switch. That, is the problem with ie6.

My foot should have already created a cozy imprint for yours to land!

This is an absolutely horrible decision….
I mean, what else are we going to complain about? Or pull all-nighters over because of a single pixel width discrepancy?

In other words, good on ya EllisLab 😊!

This is a good decision. If more sites were forcing IE6 out, then maybe it would be gone already. There are just way too many businesses still using it. Of course, Microsoft is much to blame for that. I think a lot of businesses are just afraid to upgrade anything Microsoft related after Vista and Office 2007. I’ve had Office 2007 for quite a while now and, although I don’t use it much, I still struggle to find what should be the most simple of things. I can only imagine the lost productivity for businesses.

Though being the popular scapegoat i’m not sure all the blame can be put to MS, bearing in mind they slid this into windows updqate quite seamlessly. Rolling out an IE update to the network should be, and is, a piece of cake. Too many ‘IT’ depts/managers are either just too lazy/ill-informed/paranoid to make the switch. That, is the problem with ie6.

Actually…I’m thinking it’s the developers of the web-base software that these businesses are using and for it to work they still need to have IE6. So these companies are trying to save money by not updating their software which means they won’t let their IT depts update IE.  So it all boils down to the developers who had no foresight and designed crap web-based software.
Although that’s just my opinion and really holds no ground.