Following a movement we started in twitter, there is more noise on the web about dropping support for IE 6. This time it comes from a respected web development magazine in the form of a well reasoned article: http://www.bringdownie6.com. For our biggest sites, IE6 makes up 17-26% of the browser share. On this site, IE6 is only 7% (you guys can pat yourselves on the back).

It has long been our position that IE6 is a clearly inferior browser that should be banished. About a year ago, we started allowing some features to degrade, or perhaps not work as nicely in IE6, simply because IE6 can’t support what we want to do. The best example is transparent PNG, which IE should have supported in 5.5. The web would be a much more beautiful place now if it had.

We welcome and support the recent emergence of standards based competition in the browser market. With Webkit, (Chrome, Safari), Firefox, Opera, and even IE8, we look forward to a bright, progressive future in web development.

• As members of your community, take the time to help someone move off of IE6.
• As consultants, explain to clients why supporting IE6 is a waste of time.
• And as developers, lets refuse to downgrade our work to appease the few stragglers.

With your help, we can make the world safe for our creations, and build a platform for innovation in the future.