Following suite of one of my favorite web application, Basecamp, Telos Studios will no longer support IE6 by default. The web has evolved past old proprietary browsers like IE6, NN4, etc. It is time to stop the rat race of backward compatibility and to allow the modern web to be the default.

Ahh. I sigh a gigantic sigh of relief as IE6 is a pain in the ass to develop for.

*Kind of. We’ll still develop for it, but doing so will cost extra. This goes for Firefox 1.x and 2.x as well.

UPDATE - Google has just released a new code base for IE6 users. This is too bad. It really is time for IE6 to die. I don’t want IE6 users to feel justified in their continued use of the antiquated browser. Of course, with Google’s mountain of money and army of engineers they can take on nearly any web related problem and come up with a solution. Although, in this case, it took a patch to IE6 Javascript engine from Microsoft itself to make the new code base work right - and they had to leave out a few features like drop shadows and rounded corners.