Maq Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ Hopefully this will start a trend and IE6 will finally be put in the grave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Yea, I just saw this start popping up in some of my news feeds. I can't wait to see it go, but it won't be officially gone until people get away from Windows XP. There are too many users that don't run any critical updates, much less their browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 yeah unfortunately, it will still be quite a while before I can tell my boss to tell the client they are being unreasonable for expecting me to cater to IE6 users. Can you believe I just barely get away with saying "no" to IE5? Too many people out there either need to get with the program or at least trust the people who do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 About damn time is right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 We (my company, not PHPFreaks) dropped it at the beginning of this year... Although we still support it by request, for a large fee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I'm building a site now and I just got off a call with them. They were reporting that the site was slow and a few things didn't look right. They were using IE6. I had them download IE8 and I just got an email saying that the site looks "much better now!" and it's not slow anymore. Imagine that. I think I'm going to throw an error to users that are using IE6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 That gives me an idea...I wonder how much I can get away with for writing a condition that checks browser version and redirecting user to ms ie8 dl page if it's <= ie6? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 That gives me an idea...I wonder how much I can get away with for writing a condition that checks browser version and redirecting user to ms ie8 dl page if it's <= ie6? I do something similar with my projects, by displaying a message notifying the user that they're using an old and out-dated browser with links to Firefox 3.x, Chrome, Opera, Safari and IE8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynewex Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 IF IE6 - REDIRECT TO GOATSE If we all do this, the Internet will be saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 HAHA... not a bad idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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