Web developers are campaigning against IE6. A bit too early if you ask me. More than 10% of the internet users browse the net with IE6.
This year the hunt was opened for IE6. Web developers are fed up with the browser that had been around since 2001. If you want that your website supports IE6, you limit your possibilities. So some decided to do start a campaign against IE6.
This situation is not new. Before IE6 everyone had to deal with the ancient Netscape 4.7 that just not seem to be willing to die. I decided not to support IE6 for The Bright Lines. But that was an easy decision to make: this website focuses on web developers. And those people do care about new browsers with new features. Since I could not imagine a web developer that feels comfortable with IE6 as his main browser I dropped the whole idea of supporting IE6.
But what if I would target a more general public? Than I would support IE6 without (much) hesitation. IE6 might be the most crappiest browser at the moment, it is still one of the major browsers with a market share of more than 10%. That’s still more than Chrome, Safari or Opera.
And why did you start a website in the first place? To publish content. If that’s your goal I wouldn’t risk scaring away one out of every 10 visitors. IE6 didn’t scare us from making websites in 2003, so why would it now?
By the way, if you want to have a laugh: visit this funny answer to all the “Ban IE6″-websites.
