Google withdraws support for IE6

[Kris M]

See here.

Can't believe its 9 years old!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/mobile/technology/8488751.stm

[David]

Good news, let's hope that by the end of this year, the use of IE6 will be considered unacceptable.

[francis]

You wish! I was in a government agency about 1.5 years ago and they were still on 5.5! And Windows NT!

The problem is entities like that and large corporates who see no business value in spending huge amounts on internal charging to upgrade a piece of software that doesn't bring them any business.

It will only be when suppliers of enterprise applications stop supporting IE6 that it will start to be significantly reduced in establishments. Google dropping support will have negligible impact as things like Gmail and Google Docs are banned in large organisations.

I speak as someone who still has to deal with IE6 at work.

[Kris M]

Ha!

Do what I did at my work - throw a complete strop and demand to have Firefox installed otherwise you won't lift another finger! A little drastic - but it worked.

Kris

[francis]

It's a nice idea, but when you have ~13,000 employees all running IE6, throwing a strop won't work. You just have to learn to swear more under your breath every time one of your layouts break or you can't use something "modern" like CSS attribute selectors or transparent PNGs.

But, for development, yes I have Firefox and associated extensions. I did throw a strop because I actually can't develop without it.

[Kris M]

It also helps if you flirt with the IT guy a bit... On a serious note, hopefully all government organisations will be upgraded to Windows 7 soon... so we can all forget the horrors of IE6.