Fighting Internet Explorer 6

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 by Matt

Adii, the web designer who created Premium News Theme, and one of the people behind WooThemes, is seriously considering dropping Internet Explorer 6 support from future works, and charging a premium if a client requests it.

I’ve been contemplating about what to do re: IE6 for a while now, and it wasn’t until Elliot published his announcement last week that I decided that I will indeed follow suite. So from now on, I will be adding a premium (probably 10% / 15%) on all custom design work, should the client request IE6 compliance.

Go for it, Adii! IE6 is over seven years old now, which is rather long for any piece of static software (meaning software that dosn’t have software updates pushed to it, like an operating system or such). It’s CSS standards are laughable, and it’s about time it went away.

Do you want to do something to help combat Internet Explorer 6? Campaigns to kill the web browser that just won’t die: Internet Explorer 6.

Tags: browsers, IE6, Internet Explorer

Sumesh
6:56 am on September 4th, 2008

But in the end, IE is what you said: the browser that just won’t die. It is unfortunate that XP is still more popular than Vista, which means less people are using IE7 bundled.PS: Why don’t you redesign Webmaster Source? It doesn’t look half as good as your other sites, so….

Matt
9:47 am on September 4th, 2008

Sumesh, I’ve had vague plans to redesign WSC sometime. I don’t have the right idea of how I want it to look yet though. I’ll probably end up re-doing the logo then too, which further complicates the matter. I’ll get around to it.

As for the topic ( ), browsers aside, I prefer XP to Vista. I think Microsoft needs to just push IE7 on everyone via auto-update. Then we have the problem with people still using Win2k. The local library has about 80% of their machines on Windows 2000…even though a lot of them came out post-XP. They have a mass license or something like that.