Our IE6 Support Policy has been updated.

RJ Pittman
by RJ Pittman // 01.10.2010

NOTE: Update to original policy published here.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 is a non-standards-based web browser that was first released on August 27, 2001 and the last meaningful upgrade was published in August, 2004. It does not even fully support the CSS 1.0 standard released in 1996 or the XHTML 1.0 standard published in 2000. For reference, as of January, 2010 the internet community is developing with CSS v.2.2.0 and HTML5 and IE6 (according to W3C) accounts for 9.8% of all browsers on the web.

  • In June '08, Apple stopped supporting IE6 for all internet-based services.
  • Since December 2008 Digg blocks IE6 users from some activities.
  • In January 2009, You Tube took the stance that it would only support IE6 as far as delivery of content but would make no effort to support aesthetics or functionality.
  • Facebook (the second largest site on the internet) has been prompting IE6 users to upgrade since February, 2009
  • On April 14, 2009 Microsoft retired mainstream support for the product.
  • Since 2008 Google has been depreciating support for IE6 and finally in January, 2010 declared definitively that it would no longer support the browser for any functionality.

    • Since March, 2009, We've taken a similar stance as YouTube and say that 'peeps creative and its developers will make a reasonable effort to be certain that content is conveyed to IE6 users, but make no guarantees with regard to aesthetics, functionality or interactivity.

    I mean, really, how can we be held to a higher standard than Apple, Google and Microsoft itself?

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