David Emery Online

Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008

3 July 2008

Good to see some movement in this direction, although I think it may be a little premature; obviously it depends on your audience (and 37signals is going to have a more early-adopter heavy audience then most) but on the sites I look after IE 6 makes up 35% of IE users (which has about 40% market share in total).

It would really have to drop below 5% for me to consider dropping support I think, but it has got to the stage where it seems fairly reasonable to serve a less flashy version to IE 6 users – so we can start using things like transparent pngs and serve IE 6 a simplified version still keeping the fundamental content readable and the site useable.