by Al Morel

The short and sweet answer is not for a while yet, but someday…

As you may, or may not know, IE6 is the bane of existence for web designers and developers. It’s old, weak, and tired, and many sites have stopped supporting it, but somehow, it still lives.

Just in the last few weeks, we’ve found a couple of examples of lasting entrenchment of IE6. In one instance it was physician who wanted to use an eComm that we had created. This person was running IE6 and was using a system maintained by one of the largest medical networks in the state of Massachusetts. As it turned out, IE6 was not the culprit but their own firewall. In another situation it was an mid sized insurance company with about 20 employees.

In some ways, it’s actually a good thing. We test all the sites we build in all the browsers shown in the chart below. It’s not easy getting them all to cooperate together but it certainly separates the web pros from the wannabes.

I found this breakdown of web browsers from this website: w3schools.com. As you can see, IE6 is slowly dying, and if you go to the site you can see the withering, and emergence,  of other browsers over the past few years.

Remember Netscape and AOL?

Browser stats January 2009 to April 2010

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