Author: M. Dave Auayan

According to TG Daily:

Taking a page out of Apple’s book, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service “twice as fast.” Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it fails to run some Gmail features.

I had read about Google doing this earlier, but didn’t think to add them. However a recent discussion on Slashdot (Google Tells Users To Drop IE6) had me reconsider.

Kayahan of Bama Medya says:

Im sick of IE6!!! Im working as a webmaster at my company and i stopped designing for stupid lame IE6 and im using this great script http://www.thatgrafix.com/php_detect
Thanx for ur work for trying to stop DUMBEST browser ever!! =) –Kayahan Kahriman

Rafael Marin says:

Hey!

I’m Rafael Marin, from Brazil, and I want to join you in this death march against Internet Explorer 6, so by March 09 I’ll drop the support for IE6 Crap on my new weblog design.

Congrats for the initiative! –Rafael Marin

Tamura Jones says:

I am firmly behind everyone’s right to use whatever browser they like, as long as it supports web standards like XHTML.
–Tamura Jones

Clemens of Labor C says:

Lets take the IE 6 to where it belongs – the graveyard! –Clemens Graf

Browse Sad of http://browsesad.com emails:

Force Internet Explorer 6 users to upgrade their browser by making their web browsing experience sad! 😉 –Browse Sad

I took a look at their script and it’s clever, using Microsoft’s filter extension to desaturate the content of your webpage (if viewed through IE6 that is).

Hubert Florin of CouzinHub says:

Hi, I really like this website, and totally support you in your action. My blog is going the same way by blocking IE6… but even IE7 actually, as I hate pretty much all versions of IE 🙂

I even blog about it here :

http://www.couzinhub.com/en/nov-08/internet-explorer-not-my-friend

Thanks for your action ! –Hubert Florin

Joe of Otzarstock says:

Thanks!
I was planing to start a similar campaign, I am glad you do it for all of us.
Otzarstock.com Will drop support for IE6 in its upcoming redesign – gold version, (it is in beta now)
We must be the first, all others will follow. –Joe

Bartosz Rychlicki of br-design.pl says:

br-design.pl will drop IE6 support in 2009, thats for siure! –Bartosz Rychlicki

Preeti of Noodled Out says:

My food blog has been on and off for a few years now. Every time I make upgrades, I’m doing battle with IE special comments.

Screw it, if an IE6 user visits my site and can’t see things properly, it’s not my problem that IE never bothered to render CSS or anything else in a logical manner. By Jan 2009, I’ll just have humorous pages for IE6 users to upgrade their browsers to something else. –Preeti