A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

IE 6 rightfully deserved this. However, the modern policy of supporting only the latest browsers can also be too extreme.

Web browsers have gotten to be MUCH more resource intensive than the IE6 days. Try loading any "modern" site on a "modern" browser on a netbook. (Or any computer with an Atom processor).

While its "compatibility" has waned, I really appreciate Opera 12 for its performance on humble machines. No modern browser seems to match its resource usage.

Was struggling with legacy IE6 support-hacks too once while building healthcare webapps. In that field, it was more because hospital IT admins lock everything down and upgrading stuff very much falls under the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mantra.

We too got fed up with all the IE6-specific hacks we had to maintain. One day on the login page, we added a "IE6 might be a HIPAA violation, please upgrade your system" banner. It was technically true... the browser was well past its end-of-life support and was acquiring a running list of unpatched security holes.

Our analytics showed the remaining holdouts upgraded their systems over the next few months.

Incredible how everyone is rejoicing with this story.

Enjoy your new Chrome master.

Wow is this ancient history already? At the time is was regarded as completely retarded because nobody used IE6 except grandmas and corporations. So youtube telling us to use IE6 was silly. On top of that, many websites took the popup and made it so you couldn't actually see their content under any circumstances. Those sites simply got ignored by literally everyone on a corporate browser.

Largely it was a waste of time but it did pique the media's interest.

I'm posting from Firefox. You don't have to love Chrome to hate IE6.