Comments on: Should designers stop supporting IE6?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:29:05 +0000

How does anyone avoid the automatic upgrades being shoved down their throat every time the computer starts up. I can’t even tell windows to ignore such request, so for someone to have IE 6, they are putting more effort into keeping it than upgrading.

By: WallStickerStain

WallStickerStain — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:17:36 +0000

“With all due respect to Nick, and as frustrated as I am, I think this is a rather short-sighted and selfish approach.” – I couldn’t disagree more. I would have agreed with your statement in 2007. Heck, even 2008. But not so much last year. And I’m at my final nervous breakdown in 2010. No more. IE6 was a good browser in 2001. Really, it was. But it’s a HORRIBLE browser in 2010. Stop developing for it! The more people do that the more IE6 users will be forced to upgrade. It sucks that it comes down to force, but come on. Enough is enough. They need to get with the program (figuratively and literally). People with old computers, elderly people who are far from computer savvy, and stubborn people with phobias of upgrading should all seriously realize that the internet and computers evolve fast. Developers and engineers can’t go bald from stress supporting such ridiculously antiquated technologies that hinder productivity and sanity. As a freelance developer/designer, as of 2010, I have officially stopped testing in IE6. I test in IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. That’s already five mofreaking browsers. And now we have to worry about smartphones more than ever. IE6 can just kiss my butt.

By: lj_designer

lj_designer — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:15:08 +0000

I have recently been redesigning my site…looks fine in Firefox, Safari, and Opera…not so good though in IE 6 or IE7 for that matter due to all the margin and float bugs. I messed around with it for a bit, but decided to drop support for IE in general due to the fact that < 7% of my visitors were using any version of IE, why pull my hair out for them? Not worth my time anymore.

By: Luca Candela

Luca Candela — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:02:35 +0000

Take a look at the issue from the point of view of your customers: everybody wants a great looking, up to date site. Now, the usual technique I use to drop IE6 support is simple:

I show them 5 or 6 very compelling features that I can’t provide to them unless they drop IE6, then I show them the stats for IE6. Then I ask them: do you want to make more money out of 20% of your visitors that probably are just fucking around at work, or do you want to make your REAL customers feel treated like they deserve?

I never found anybody that still wanted IE6. It’s just time to ignore IE6 altogether, it will go away by itself.

By: Papa Raboon

Papa Raboon — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:43:32 +0000

I agree, IE6 needs to die and those who say “support the lowest common denominator” and “Those who don’t support IE6 are probably worse than those who only support IE6.” You’re complete idiots!!!

IE6 is obsolete, treat it as such…

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:38:57 +0000

Randa Clay is an idiot, apparently. But continuing support for IE6, you’re dragging it along and allowing for it to live longer (of which, it’s already been around WAY too long). If you even OFFER it as an option, and your clients choose to support it, you’re just adding 1 more website out there that people will be able to view without upgrading.

It’s 2009 for crying out loud. The browser is more than 8 years old, isn’t even CSS 1.1 compatible (much less 2 or the new 3), and it causes way too much time and thus money (on the client end) to develop for. It also restricts a lot of things we COULD be doing with web applications if we didn’t have to support it.

Stop it. Let it go. The quicker we all stop supporting it, the faster it will go away. The longer you keep supporting it, the longer it will be around. And with IE7, and soon IE8 (and Windows7), as well as non-Micro$oft browsers leading the way MILES ahead of ANY version of IE, there is absolutely NO REASON WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT IT. GET. OVER. IT.

By: Tom Procter

Tom Procter — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:29:53 +0000

I agree, IE6 infortunately, still gets used by a lot of corporations and they are sometimes some of the people that spend a lot of money with people like us!

Roll on the day that IE6 is no more, but it will be a while yet.

By: Matteo

Matteo — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:36:59 +0000

Hey guys, I’m running a campaing to stop IE6, cos I think it’s high time now for people to upgrade to a decent browser and say goodbye to that nightmare called IE6.
Check it out!
http://www.stopie6.org
Feel free to leave a comment! thanks

By: evofuse

evofuse — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:25:21 +0000

IE6 needs to die at some point. If everyone stops supporting it then it will go away faster. I think when a user hits your site you should check for ie6. If they are using ie6 then you should display a huge FireFox ad say you need to change browsers for a better experience. If all sites did this then a lot of people would change to FireFox

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