Being a web developer I think this is a very good thing. IE6 is old (~7 years?) and broken in a lot of ways. While it might not be the best way to go about announcing discontinued support for IE6, it is progress in the right direction. Think if we still had to support NS4 or IE4 (*ducks* I'm sure someone out there still has to. Sorry.)? I've been waiting for announcements like this for a while now.
If 37signals has the data to back up their decision I don't see this as a problem. I'm sure they have been looking at their webstats and have found that IE6 users have been dropping off left and right. I figure they found the magic number at which to stop support. The web is about change. When was the last time you used a piece of software for 7 years without upgrading? Andrew Jaswa On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Nasir Barday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 37 Signals decided to pick August 15th, no wait, October 1st, as the day > when they would "phase out" IE6: > http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/07/basecamp-phasin.html > > They must have been barraged with e-mails from angry users (probably already > angry at Basecamp's extraterrestrial interface ...), because they posted a > clarification: > http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/09/further-clarifi.html > > Whoops, "phase-out"? Probably a stronger phrase than they intended. And > nothing is going to happen on that day-- no features that are compatible > only with the latest browsers, nothing to break current functionality-- so > why make an announcement like this? With no concrete incentive to upgrade, > the decision for the user to upgrade is arbitrary, and most people will put > it off until it actually matters. This announcement strikes me as premature. > > Maybe I'm just being whiny on a Friday morning ... > > Happy Friday, > - Nasir > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Andrew Jaswa andrewjaswa.com wsuug.org ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
