Christopher Blizzard » 2009 » February » 20 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog I love you. Thu, 26 May 2011 20:29:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 an end of life date for IE6 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2009/02/an-end-of-life-date-for-ie6/ http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2009/02/an-end-of-life-date-for-ie6/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:43:45 +0000 Christopher Blizzard http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1045 Continue reading →]]> One huge step forward for the web as a whole would be to end support for IE6.  It’s filled with bad quirks and is the primary source of Microsoft’s drag on the web.  At Mozilla we generally encourage people to upgrade to Firefox, because it’s light years ahead of any version of IE, but we’d be happy for people to upgrade to IE7 or any other modern browser like Safari or Chrome.

It sounds like some people in Norway have started to band together and just choose not to support it.  But one thing that would really help is to just pick a date and have it spread world wide.

My suggestion is for everyone to just say that Dec 31st, 2009 is the last day it should be supported – drop support from libraries, stop testing, etc.  IE6 usage is already sliding quickly and it’s time to help it across the line.  The web needs an upgrade.

Update: There’s a great set from Norway on flickr that Paul Kim pointed out.

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