IE Death March

Daniel Fisher says:

Thanks! I really like your initiative!!!

My blog (http://www.lennybacon.com/) and company website (http://www.devcoach.biz/) -Daniel Fisher

Kill_IE7 emailed:

IE7 will be 3 years old in Nov this year, since it was released in 2006. You should continue your campaign and switch focus to IE7 soon to reduce IE7 usage before it becomes another IE6 mess.

Say by the end of 2010, drop all support for IE7? IE8 isn’t really much better either since it doesn’t support many key standards compliant features like SVG, CSS3, Canvas etc. Better to encourage everyone to use another browser instead of IE.

Oh ye of little faith. Notice I didn’t name the site ie6deathmarch.org.

With any luck, Microsoft will be releasing IE8 at MIX 09 (to add fuel to that fire, check out Countdown to MIX09: Internet Explorer 8 Says Hello World on the MIX09 website).

Once IE8 is out, it’ll be even easier to justify dropping support for IE6 to the powers that be, assuming you haven’t already joined the IE Death March.

StoreOne says:

We will stop the support for this obsolet browser, right now in March.

Jacob of The Web Squeeze says:

With much deliberation we have decided that we will no longer be supporting IE6. We will encourage the members of our web design and development community to join your effort and STOP supporting IE6. In fact, to assist in the effort we will be making a post on our web design magazine to inform our readers about your site and motivate them to join the endeavor!

As of March 2009, The Web Squeeze, LLC. is no longer supporting IE6! -Jacob Haug

Markus of Coffeebean Webdesign says:

I´m bored of building workarounds for such a prehistoric piece of browser software. It takes even longer to fix the ie6 problems than building the whole site for modern browsers. So i decided to drop ie6 support after may 2009 an i will definitely join the death march with ab big smile on my face -Markus Grosse

Alex says:

Hi,

thanks for creating this great project! -Alex Lawrence

He also threw together a bit of markup you could use: http://www.alex-lawrence.com/work/html/ie6-death-march-code-snippet

Thanks Alex!

Alexander of http://www.mybrief.de says:

We never support IE6 for mybrief.de. This Browser is a horror for every Developer. -Alexander

On twitter, I asked, “What will you do with IE6 after IE8 is released?” and got a couple responses:

throw it in the garbage
sugeek 4:05 PM Feb 19th

Personally, just before I read that, I vowed not to support three versions of IE.
jlemoine 4:33 PM Feb 19th

The same like now!
venlix 1:14 AM Feb 20th

Continue to make things at least function, because the IE7 users will be the ones to upgrade to 8. 6 will probably live on.
danmcgrath 7:05 AM Feb 20th

Message users that IE-freakin-8 is out, and stop working to make it do things modern browsers do. They get the degraded stuff.
ryanmcgrath 7:46 AM Feb 20th

So.. what are *you* going to do?

Brendan of RetroGamer says:

My site, RetroGamer, will be launching by mid-March. I’ve made a decision not to support IE6 for obvious reasons.

It will probably cost me in sales, but I think that loss will be offset (at least in part) by the savings made from not having to support or develop for it in the first place.

My day job involves developing for a decent number of branded websites, and as other staff are forced to ues ie6 (as the webdev I am one of the few who are able to run other browsers) I almost always have to sacrifice some aspect of a site to make it ie friendly. -Brendan Myers

Tears of Hate of Projekt Schwarz says:

It’s not a hard way to change your browser, so everybody who wants to use the internet should let IE6 rest in peace!