IE6 is dumb and no one uses it. Here are the numbers based on monthly traffic:

By browser

Firefox — 2,244,151
Chrome — 2,048,946
Safari — 463,940
IE9 — 231,281
IE8 — 212,723
Opera — 139,950
IE7 — 51,839
Android — 43,878
Opera Mini — 24,050
IE6 — 12,771

Over time

IE6 traffic on April 23rd 2011 — 8,044
IE6 traffic on April 23rd 2012 — 2,779

IE6 traffic has dropped by more than two thirds in the past year.

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+1, I think the stats speak louder than any argument could.

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I haven't been paying attention to IE6. We did get #945768: PNG Alpha filter for IE6 after the redesign, and a couple other issues filed by someone just testing IE6.

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mis htmling

  • drumm committed 71f83fa on 7.x-1.x 
    #1544024 This IE6 backfill does not actually seem to be used.
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Status: Active » Needs review

Drupal.org is no longer accessible with IE6 due to POODLE.

I removed the one hack that I could think of, and discovered it wasn't actually being used anyway. The only code comment I see with "IE6" is also an IE7 hack.

Is there more to do in the codebase?

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I can't find the legacy IE support variables in the code base. I guess we should add them? I think they are all true by default.

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Status: Needs review » Needs work

  • drumm committed 71f83fa on 7.x-2.x 
    #1544024 This IE6 backfill does not actually seem to be used.
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Status: Needs work » Fixed

Added $legacy-support-for-ie6: false; to the dev branch, thanks!

  • drumm committed 85f3bee on 7.x-2.x, dev 
    Issue #1544024 by LewisNyman, drumm: Drop support for IE6

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.