End of IE6 support on the broad 'net?

[jfriend]

Could the end finally be near for IE6? YouTube looks like they are going to be dropping support soon. Digg may drop them for most features. The end of supporting IE6 just can't come soon enough.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/

In an interesting stat from Digg, they say that IE6 is still 5% of their viewership, but only 1% of their activity (diggs, buries, comments, etc...).

[Allen]

Now that the geeks are doing this, how about the non-geeks they don't seem to care about.

149 29.80% MSIE 7.0
118 23.60% MSIE 6.0
102 20.40% MSIE 8.0
42 8.40% Firefox 3.5
37 7.40% Firefox 3.0.9
23 4.60% Firefox 3.0.1
16 3.20% Safari 1.2
9 1.80% Firefox 2.0.0
4 0.80% Firefox 3.5
16 of the last 29 visitors are from Dgrin. I would think most IE6's are from
old families and businesses.

[Andy]

Man we'd sure love to kill support for this olde browser. It's hanging on mostly due to corporates that still have it. Why anyone would browse with it on a home machine is beyond me.

We support it because we need to. But we also can't wait for the day when we don't have to support it.

[jfriend]

Now that the geeks are doing this, how about the non-geeks they don't seem to care about.

149 29.80% MSIE 7.0
118 23.60% MSIE 6.0
102 20.40% MSIE 8.0
42 8.40% Firefox 3.5
37 7.40% Firefox 3.0.9
23 4.60% Firefox 3.0.1
16 3.20% Safari 1.2
9 1.80% Firefox 2.0.0
4 0.80% Firefox 3.5
16 of the last 29 visitors are from Dgrin. I would think most IE6's are from
old families and businesses.

Very different results here:
http://content.screencast.com/users/jfriend/folders/Jing/media/ce167a06-1502-41d1-90c2-b00c6df59dee/2009-07-14_1405.png

Obviously this isn't typical. IE users just don't look at my site in the last few days (only 9%) and no IE6.

[Hikin' Mike]

Dabbing with web designing (I just know enough to be dangerous), but I HATE IE6 with a passion! I've been told my site has some bugs using IE6, but I can't fix it because I don't have IE6 any more. I'm using FF3 myself, but have IE7, Opera and Chrome.

[photostuff]

At the hospital I work at the IS department still has not installed IE 7 over its network, let alone IE 8. I installed IE 7 on a couple machines there myself out of frustration with IE 6. There are hundreds of computers there however.