Beginning of the end for IE6?
Last month, Apple announced that their new Mobile Me service won’t support IE6. Yesterday, it was the turn of 37Signals—they’re ending support for IE6 on their flagship application, Basecamp.
IE6 has been a thorn in the side of web developers for years, preventing the use of advanced features and forcing kludgy, time-consuming workarounds to do things that just work in browsers like Firefox, Opera and Safari (and even in IE7). But it’s been slow to die off, thanks largely to Microsoft’s seeming inability to persuade users to upgrade.
That some high-profile applications are now able to deny support to IE6 is a good sign for the rest of the web.