The End of Internet Explorer 6?
1 year, 5 months ago by James.
According to our Web Design Philippines Insider, Google announced in January 29 of 2010 that it will start its phasing out process of supporting Internet Explorer 6 or IE6. And in March 1, 2010, Google, and all of its web-based applications and services, have stopped supporting IE6.
Other than Google, YouTube have also withdrawn its support for IE6 in March 13, 2010. And now, many major websites have begun their campaign to discourage people in using IE6, encouraging them to upgrade their browser to a higher version, particularly for IE8.
So why withdraw their support for IE6?
Reasons for withdrawing their support for IE6 is still uncertain. But there are a number of known speculations.
Some say its because of security problems. But according to our Web Design Philippines Insider, one of the reasons which led many to withdraw their support for IE6 is because of its rendering issues due to its poor support on CSS2.
This problem also caused a number of difficulties for many web developers, which led them to use unorthodox techniques and methods in CSS, such as CSS hacks. This is why many web developers and designers fully support the campaign for discouraging the use of IE6.
The question now that many web developers are asking;
“What if CSS 3 is released and that many are still using IE6 as their main browser?”
This is because, up-til now, 20% of the total browser market share are IE6 users, majority of which are coming from the business sectors who are still using Windows XP as their main OS.
