IE Death March

Christophe of says:

Hi!

I’m happy to join the IE Death March!
My small business Kolibria Webservices Ltd. has stopped supporting MSIE the 1st January

http://blog.kolibria.com/articles/2009/01/01/happy-new-year-good-bye-msie-6

Thank you for everything, and let’s put an end to this joke ! -Christophe Maximin

http://www.maddesigns.de emails:

we will follow and won’t support the IE6 further

Michael of Fuery Solutions says:

Sooner that IE6 falls into the proverbial Microsoft garbage heap the better. May it rest there for all eternity never to be seen, heard, or spoken of ever again! -Michael Fuery

Team Tejat Hamburg says:

Yeah, lets stop this!!! How about an invoice to Microsoft for all the extra work we did (no-one ever paid us for). Greets from Hamburg, Germany. -Team Tejat Hamburg

Shane of One Line Rhyme says:

After making a few cosmetic updates to my site and testing it on Firefox, Safari, and IE 7 I decided to try IE6 and low ‘n behold my site is unrecognizable. I just don’t have the patience any more to deal with this seven year old incapable browser. -Shane Krolikowski

James of BC Wars says:

The site is only in alpha testing right now, but it wouldn’t even work on IE6 because of all of the transparent PNG files I use for the site. So I have built the site from the ground up without the slightest support for IE6 and added browser detection so any user that tries to access IE6 will be denied and given download links to upgrade. -James Simpson

ilhan of Turkish MozillaZine says:

Hey!
Since the beginning of my site (Turkish MozillaZine) I do not support IE6. Actually it is not in my hands, it is their fault, even IE 7 is not capable to render correctly. You can see the message for IE6 at browsershots.org, it says “sorry, IE6 does not render correctly this web page, better you move to Fx, Chrome, Opera… We suggest you Firefox…”)

I have one another web page that is in Bulgarian (krumovgrad.eu). Now I’m developing a new layout for it (probably it will ready at the end of semester holiday), wich is XHTML 1.0 Strict. Do you know, even IE 8 (beta) does not know what is “object” tag! So I will use two different templates for this page, one for IE which will be the oldest one and I will not develop it anymore, and one for others; index_ie.php and index.php.

I don’t care about hits, I’m doing it for fun.

I’ll follow your site, nice job! -ilhan

Enthusiasm: you’re doin’ it right.

Brian of StuckPixel Studio says:

My company, StuckPixel Studio develops websites. We are about to start charging extra if clients want IE6 support. After March 2009, we will probably start charging SIGNIFICANTLY more to discourage IE6 use. Not only does it increase the development time by developing for an outdated browser, but it also limits our capability for delivering a superior product. -Brian Farris

According to TG Daily:

Taking a page out of Apple’s book, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service “twice as fast.” Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it fails to run some Gmail features.

I had read about Google doing this earlier, but didn’t think to add them. However a recent discussion on Slashdot (Google Tells Users To Drop IE6) had me reconsider.

Kayahan of Bama Medya says:

Im sick of IE6!!! Im working as a webmaster at my company and i stopped designing for stupid lame IE6 and im using this great script http://www.thatgrafix.com/php_detect
Thanx for ur work for trying to stop DUMBEST browser ever!! =) -Kayahan Kahriman