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Internet Explorer 6 Support

January 27, 2009

As you may have heard some web companies are dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 (ie6 as it is often called).  37signals and google’s gmail have announced they are no longer supporting this browser.  Others like Apple’s Mobile Me just don’t list Internet Explorer 6 as a supported browser.  Still others like facebook, politely ask you to upgrade your browser.

But I use Internet Explorer 6

If you happen to be a user of ie6, you are not alone.  As of today, Sephone sees slightly less than 20% of web surfers using ie6.  We do recommend that you upgrade your browser to more modern one.  There are several good ones to download, install and use.  This is relatively easy to do and they are all free.

How do I know if I have ie6

Most operating systems and browsers have a menu item that tells you, try clicking Help than About.  On the right, you can see a screen shot of a help menu from Internet Explorer 6.  You can clearly see that it is Microsoft Internet Explorer and then the next line it says version 6.0.2800.1106.  You don’t have to worry about the .0.2800.1106 part, if it says 6. anything, you have ie6.

Why are people not supporting ie6

This version was released in 2001.  That is a long long time ago in web years, it’s very old.  As a web development shop, ie6 has been a source of numerous headaches and frustrations.  Web developers need to do extra work to make sure to works with these older browsers.  Internet Explorer 6 also lacks some of the features that are needed by the modern web developer such as PNG alpha channel, box model, standards compliance and XMLHttpRequest (XHR).

Does sephone support ie6

While we do recommend that you upgrade your browser, Sephone does offer limited ie6 support on some of our products and services.  We are slowly phasing out support though.  As we do more and more development we are supporting ie6 less and less.  The browsers we do support are firefox version 2 and up, Safari version 2 and up, Internet Explorer 7 and 8, and Google’s Chrome.

Alan has been creating websites since CompuServe was huge. Today he still is developing websites using technologies such as CSS3, HTML5, jQuery and CakePHP.

Comments »

  1. On February 17, 2009 at 9:28 pm, Internet Explorer » Blog Archive » sephone blog » Internet Explorer 6 Support added:

    [...] I2fly wrote an interesting post today on sephone blog » Internet Explorer 6 SupportHere’s a quick excerptWeb help and tutorials, application tips, and news from Sephone Internet Solutions, a Maine-based Web solutions company. [...]

  2. On April 17, 2009 at 10:01 am, Internet Explorer 6 Support - Broadcaster added:

    [...] usability in IE6.  For more information about Sephone and IE6, please read our previous blog post, Internet Explorer 6 Support. [...]

  3. On August 7, 2009 at 8:46 am, Alan Whitney commented:

    More reading about this can be found on Mashable.

    http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/
    http://mashable.com/2009/08/07/ie6-must-die-2/

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