Comments on: Farewell IE6

By: Jatin

Jatin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:35:16 +0000

Good Bye IE6. You served in 2001, not now.

By: Agus

Agus — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:15:18 +0000

Great article! keep writing more things ;)

By: Janice Schwarz

Janice Schwarz — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:02:23 +0000

Now I feel all old and stuff….

I’m amused that when IE7 came out you were horrified that you’d have to test in both IE6 and 7. I remember having to make sure sites worked in IE3, IE4, IE5 and IE5.5. There were still people using Windows 3 and 3.5

Young whippersnappers… ;-P

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:17:31 +0000

This was the worst nightmare. Nice article.

By: ArleyM

ArleyM — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:07:43 +0000

The battle to end IE7 won’t be as bad. Users and IT depts who were savvy enough to upgrade from IE6 to IE7 have for the most part been good enough to upgrade to IE8 – version 7 has always had the least of the traffic in the analytics I’ve seen.

The real problem is Windows Mobile – this is the only major mobile browser that isn’t Webkit (like BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android are) – it’s IE7!!!

By: aza

aza — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:26:11 +0000

You said ..
I’ll admit I actually felt a small pang of sadness and nostalgia at the news. IE6 will always have a prominent place in Internet history, but the time has come to move on.

I heard same when IE 5 went to history.

By: Jeprie

Jeprie — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:12:41 +0000

This is a really sad goodbye letter to IE6. Nice work.

By: coxrichuk

coxrichuk — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:20:09 +0000

Brilliant article. My productivity will be up 10 fold once support for IE6 has been fazed out – haven’t quite one the battle yet!

By: JeremyW

JeremyW — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:12:15 +0000

*cough*

http://www.browsium.com/

From ex Microsofties who worked on the IE dev team…

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:15:37 +0000

I appreciate the sentiment, & can relate to it. However, I long ceased to feel any empathy whatsoever for IE6. The sooner it dies – the better as far as I’m concerned. It owes me more than it can ever possibly hope to repay me for countless frustrations over the years.
Now all we need is a countdown for the end of Windows.