Google to Phase out Support for Internet Explorer 6

Google announced it plans to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6 or IE 6. This is good news for the web development world since this browser doesn’t support key web standards and progressive user interface techniques. Our team affectionately refers to it as the thorn in their side. In short, IE 6 makes web developers’ lives difficult because what works in other, more current browsers does not render correctly in IE 6.

Geary Interactive’s analytics department shared Omniture’s most recent breakdown of browser usages, which support’s Google’s choice to let this dinosaur browser just go ahead and die already.

Internet Explorer (IE 7) rakes in 30.4%

Internet Explorer (IE holds 22.5%

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 maintains 14.7%

Internet Explorer (IE 6) aka the browser in question has a 12.8% market share

Safari 4.0.4 rounds out the top 5 with 4%