Taking IE6 out to pasture... one step at a time

Taking IE6 out to pasture:

If you are a web developer you've struggled with supporting IE6 for quite some time.

Just how long? Browser Life Statuses

Unfortunately dropping support for IE6 isn't that easy when your end users (and paying customers) are using IE6.

Since many people using IE6 don't have a choice (e.g. they are forced to use it at work) the only way to help push users into newer browsers is to move the entire Internet forward.

Once the momentum of sites dropping IE6 support kicks in... I.T. Admins everywhere will feel the pressure to update their end users PCs to a newer version of IE or even other browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera.

To help track which sites are dropping IE support and thus gauge when you should drop IE6 support (if you haven't already) we're compiling a list here.

If you know of a site that is or has dropped IE6 support please let us know!

Dropping IE6 Support:

Site	Status	Notes
37 Signals	Dropping support for IE6	Dropping IE6 support across all products
CrowdSpring	Phasing out IE6 support	Phasing out IE6 support as of March 2009
Digg	Dropping support for logged in actions in IE6 soon	Much Ado About IE6
Facebook	Suggests IE6 users upgrade	...
Get Satisfaction	Dropped IE6 support	...
GMail	IE6 users prompted to upgrade to Chrome	"GMail runs faster in Google Chrome"
iWork	IE6 unsupported	IE6 unsupported, IE7 support is quirky
LinkedIn	IE6 partially supported	The new rich interface features for LinkedIn will NOT work in IE6 by design
Mobile Me	IE6/IE7 unsupported	IE7 unsupported
Mustardseed Media	IE6 support not included by default	IE6 support by default dropped
Projectturf	Dropped IE6 support	IE6 No Longer supported
Scr.im	No interest in fixing IE issues	Won't Fix
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010	IE6 won't be supported for editing	IE6 won't be supported for editing
Xero	IE6 support dropped	IE6 is no longer supported
YouTube	Dropping support soon	YouTube next to kiss IE6 Support goodbye
Yubby	IE6 unsupported	IE6 is not supported linked image
Google Apps	Google Apps unsupported	support dropping for IE6 March 1,2010
Zenbe	IE6 unsupported	IE6 is not a very standard compliant browser. We almost have to write a different AJAX UI in order to support IE6. Sorry.

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