Great news - Finally Google is phasing out support for IE6, sinking a nice big wooden stake through the heart of the evil browser…
Well OK maybe that’s overstating it a bit. But on occasions I’ve seen my colleague Ed almost reduced to tears when our latest W3C standards compliant site falls to pieces testing in IE6. So it was over a consoling cup of tea last year that we decided to stop offering IE6 compatibility to clients, unless they wanted to pay double for the web build and testing stage.
The problem has always been that IE6 ploughed it’s own furrow in a fairly typical Microsoft kind of way – it all worked, but just slightly differently from everyone else – making building a site that worked on all browsers like herding cats up a steep river.
So bye bye IE6, good riddance old chap. Great, now we can put that stinky garlic away.
Disclaimer: The views expressed here do not suggest that Google is a vampire slayer or that Microsoft turns out software with supernatural powers to offend web designers.
Tags: Internet
