James of Studio J Design says:
Hey, my company StudioJ is dropping support for IE6 from March 15, 2009. It’s about time it incurred an additional fee, considering how much extra work it generates. Thanks for inspiring me to finally put my foot down and say ‘no more’, feel free to add StudioJ to the supporters list.
–James Ducker
Michael of A+media says:
I dropped support for IE6 some months ago and it felt great. Now I don’t have to change all the png icons on esteak.net for example 🙂 –Michael
C Snover of Zetafleet says:
I love your ‘Things younger than IE 6’ feature! I’ve got a few recommendations for it…
YouTube (2005), 802.11g (2003), Digital Cable (2002), September 11 terrorist attack (2001).
Keep on being awesome!
P.S. You can absolutely add me to The March. I’ve been doing Web development since before IE6 was even released; you have no idea how pleased I am every time a client tells me I don’t have to bother with it, which happens more and more often these days. 🙂 –C Snover
Atchucan Gaming says:
Down with IE6! Go Mozilla Firefox. Visit our not-friendly to IE 6 site at www.atchucan.blogspot.com
Jodi of Intermission says:
We’ve already dropped support for IE6. If you visit our site, you get a nice upgrade message. –Jodi
David of The Griddle says:
Howdy! I support your cause.
It’s all well and good to try to write code that works in every browser. But seriously. IE6. Wow.
On my site, thegriddle.net, I’m going to keep following web standards, but as of today if you visit my The Griddle in IE 6 or lower, you’ll be asked to upgrade.
(At least I think it will ask you. I don’t have a copy of IE 6 to try it on but I am guessing it might work.) –David Millar
Bruno Augusto says:
I’m still doing my client sites for IE6. But I really want stop it, so I’m glad stop developing too. –Bruno Augusto
Giorgio Marandola says:
I never consider IE6… simply…for me it doesn’t exists.
It’s time to look forward, I don’t like archeology!Bye IE6 !!
Matt Zillhardt says:
I’ve stopped developing for IE6 myself already. Unless my day job requires it, and even then I try to steer my supervisors away from this (just tell them it costs more time / money). For freelance if a client wants IE6 support, it’ll be an optional, charged-for extra.
My personal site does not support IE6 either.
Here’s after seeing Mike Hopley’s comment, I realized I’d need a graphic to illustrate my point:
By this time next year, if IE 6’s usage pattern continues to match that of IE 5, IE6 will be around 13%. The numbers come from TheCounter (and could probably be more granular… perhaps when I have more time).
This chart brought to you by: Google Chart API (hand rolled!) and the letters “I” and “E”.