Okay, we have tried. Spent thousands of hours. For what? For something dead. And that is why we have decided to stop developing for IE6. From now on and forever. Why? It is very simple: the benefits of using IE are too few – and the faults too great – to put off the adoption of an alternative any longer.

Since this browser was originally released in 2001 and does not support the latest web standards and technologies compared to modern browsers which offer a rich support for HTML5, CSS2 or CSS3. Not to mention all the IE6 quirks and bugs which were sadly never fixed.

Since it’s release in 2001, Microsoft realized that the IE6 was a piece of shit not the greatest piece of software they have ever written. So after about 5 year’s of development on the 18. October 2006 they released IE6 successor Internet Explorer 7. Furthermore in March 2009 they even released todays latest version, Internet Explorer 8. Both successors offer a lot of improvements compared to the old IE6 and most importantly a better support of todays web standards. Fortunately the number of people using IE6 is decreasing slowly but steady and the release of the upcoming Windows 7 later this year will surely speed up this process.

So, two new versions plus the lack of support for any modern technology? What would you do?

Exactly. That is what we do. Upgrade.