Metamorphic Web Design

Google says 1 March.

IE version six is a real pain for web developers. It was a fine browser in its time, but that time was almost a decade ago. In Internet Years thats... well, there have been several Ice Ages since then. However, about 20% of web users are still using it.

If you've got Google's clout, you can get away with requiring those 20% to upgrade. For the rest of us, 20% is a big enough chunk of our potential market that it's not so easy a decision to make. For my part, I'd love to stop supporting IE6, but I'm waiting for that 20% to fall below 5%. And it is falling. Partly because of big companies like Google drawing a line in the sand, and partly because WIndows 7 seems to be appealing enough to make many people upgrade from Windows XP (which came with IE6).