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As im sure most of you are aware by now, Youtube is dropping support for IE6. Digg has announced the same thing in the last week or so. This is great news! If few more big sites drop support we will hopefully see a big movement away from IE6! Do you still support IE6 for your sites? Do you charge an extra premium to do so to your clients?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/

One giant step for mankind!

Awesome!
Why not drop support for ie7 as well?

@Johan André - now there’s an idea!  :lol:

@trs21219 - Dunno whether it’s a case of twisted masochism but we still support ie6 for pretty much every project. Years ago I dreamt of the day where we could drop it but I’ve got use to dealing with. Will sure be glad to see the back of it though!

Although at first this sounds like great news… I really wonder how many IE6 users actually use sites like youtube and digg?

As a matter of fact: there are still almost a whopping 10% of IE 6 users around. If I’d need to create a website for the big public, I wouldn’t ignore that fact…

I have been using the tag #fuckyouie6 for months now and have not been bothering to support it for almost a year. I have no time in the day to waste on 10% of users who cannot be bothered to upgrade.

Well yeah, I bother also only that much until it looks more or less as it should. If something breaks the layout completely, I think it is still worth to invest half a hour for this 10%. On the other hand: if there is a work-giver who wants it fully supported, you won’t have much choice, will you?

Damn the tag was meant to be #f**kyouie6.

If something breaks the layout completely I still don’t care. My site and my projects are not of any interest to the non-tech population and if someone is still lame enough to use IE6 while developing REST based applications or working with Git, command line apps or making sites in CodeIgniter then I dont WANT them to be able to see my site or comment. They can stay the hell away from me :-p

Sadly of course, money can lead to breaking my rule. If clients want to pay me to get it working on IE6 then they can, but I will of course charge them extra for my time. Luckily the test team at my 9-5 often forget to check in IE6 😉

As I always say “Why bother giving support for something that’s broken. Microsoft is the one to fix the problem, not us” 😊

Finally! Woohoo! 😊 I was already happy when they started installing IE7 on each computer here at university, this is good for those home computer kids.

I was already happy when they started installing IE7 on each computer here at university

We don’t have that problem at my university. Firefox all the way 😊
Then again that might be to do with the fact that 95% of PC’s in my department are Linux based

In the next release of my current project I’ll drop support for anything worse than IE8. Or at least I won’t guarantee any kind of functionality.

I completely agree with Yorick, MS should fix the problem and obey the standards, not the developer.
And nowadays there is great alternatives even on a crappy Windows-machine, simply one click away (and a couple of dialogboxes).

I was already happy when they started installing IE7 on each computer here at university

We don’t have that problem at my university. Firefox all the way 😊
Then again that might be to do with the fact that 95% of PC’s in my department are Linux based

I work at the Social Sciences Faculty (read: Not the most tech-savvy faculty) 😊

Dropping IE7 support seems a bit much, according to that article, that is still a lot.

good news for everyone! They should add ie7 to the list as well.