I dropped Internet Explorer 6

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Thoughts from Kevin Burg, a web designer living and working in New York City.

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Dear IE6 I Hate You[contrast.ie]
Time To Drop IE6[sonspring.com]
Phasing out support for IE 6[37signals.blogs.com]
The Final Word on IE6[superfluousbanter.org]
No more Internet Explorer 6 support[b.lesseverything.com]
Give People a Reason to Upgrade[usabilitypost.com]
If you care about this earth, help us abolish IE 6[brunomiranda.com]
Finally time to Ditch IE 6[brendancullen.com]

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IE6 users for me now down to 15%, will drop support to basic stylesheet when it hits 5% ;o) At what level will you drop IE6 support? @welshstew

Wondering if I should drop IE6 support for my blog. At work we have over 60,000 people using IE6 on the intranet. @tannyo

Drop IE6! It makes all web projects more expensive and hinders inovation! http://www.tu.no/it/article199563.ece (norwegian article) @bjartek

@combustingboy easy fix, just drop IE6 support! @leroy77

I drop IE6 support from now on. Enough is enough! @mintran

sigh -- when will we get to drop IE6 support? is yesterday too much to ask? @hkelement

by @brupm I DROPPED IE6 http://idroppedie6.com/ @joerabelo

@rosshj Bit hard to drop IE6 off your 'headache list' when you have client's whose ultra-savvy IT departments still swear by it!! Grrr! @masey

@shiftb I really think every developer should just drop IE6 support. make people go to IE7 if they want IE. @Wompy

2009, the year we drop IE6? - http://hellotxt.com/l/yn6r @andotyjazz

Agrees with @booshtukka - come on aunty, help a brother out and drop ie6 support. @555

@colinbruce it would be faster if we could drop ie6... please?????!!! @kassy4

I dropped IE6... http://idroppedie6.com @PatrickTulskie

Yea!!! IE6 needs to go away forever!!! Google tells users to drop IE6: http://bit.ly/epWc @trekgonzo

LOL Have you dropped IE6 yet? http://idroppedie6.com/ @m4130

@BarbaraKB a lot of big sites are dropping IE6 support, Facebook prompts users to upgrade... @DaveCarruthers

RT @garrettdimon: Officially dropping IE6 is the most liberating development decision ever. @TheRealTrevor

#twithelp from @ramsden: does anyone know how much longer Microsoft are going to support ie6? http://tinyurl.com/d4yusx @twithelpme

does anyone know how much longer Microsoft are going to support ie6? @ramsden

@garrettdimon Dropping IE6 completely or hiding CSS from it? @macbruker

Officially dropping IE6 is the most liberating development decision ever. @garrettdimon

@jake drop it. There's no good reason to support IE6. Users won't upgrade if we keep pandering to them @strawp

@briancray Way to be! If my site didnt promote something beyond me, it wouldn't support ie6 either! @KPfefferle

@pauloelias I always use doc types and never run in quirks mode. When I code I aim to support IE6 and up and use a Win2k test system. @thedjbook

Sorry IE6 users... we have decided to not support IE6 with our new web site. Please upgrade - it's for your own good! :) @aviationgeek

@GregEh sadly if your target demographic includes people who aren't web savvy you have to support IE6 to some extent, especially for e-comm @camcavers

Thinking about dropping IE6 support for my personal projects... thoughts? I'm tired of supporting an 8 year-old browser. @aviationgeek84

I propose a new event: "IE6 liberation day". On this day we will no longer have to support IE6. How 'bout Monday? @phpdevelopment

Why many TOR still need to support IE6. They can't update to IE7 coz they don't have MS license? @joomlacorner

So, IE8 is in RC1 (http://is.gd/1YYL). Hopefully that means full release 1st half 2009. I'll feel 110% justified dropping IE6 support then! @Japh

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