No Explorer 6 for next gen. Expression Engine

Continuing the welcome (from my point of view) and growing trend amongst developers to give Internet Explorer 6 the boot, Ellis Labs who produce Expression Engine (currently powering the very site that you are reading) have declared that when EE 2.0 ships it will no longer support IE6.

They are quick to point out that this does not prevent web designers/developers from building IE6-friendly sites; it is the EE Control Panel, its themes, and the default-install site that will not officially be IE6 compatible. So unless you are maintaining an EE 2.0 site via a machine that only has IE6 on it, you can rest easy; it won’t affect your site visitors.

In Shark Attack’s view this is a perfectly acceptable and sensible decision. IE6 is a horrible browser, riddled with assorted flavours of badness, that routinely turns perfectly well coded, valid CSS into a pile of stinking poo — unless developers to jump through all manner of additional hoops to placate it. If this is a surprise to you, then you can find more details on our IE 6 is broken page. Yes, it is going to be a lock-in for many corporate IT networks for a while to come yet (the main reason that Ellis Labs will continue to make EE 1.x available for those who need it), but the sooner it is talked about solely in the past tense the happier I’ll be.

No IE6 support for EE 2? I have no problem with that.