Novamedia blog

According to web analytics company StatCounter, usage of Internet Explorer 6 has fallen below 5%. Its decline has been dramatic from 11.5% a year ago to its current level of 4.7%.

That's great news for us beleaguered web designers. Especially when you hear comments like this from Aodhan Cullen, CEO of StatCounter: "At these levels web developers now have valid justification not to support IE6 in the future,". According to the report, a number of sites including YouTube have already withdrawn support for IE6.

So it means we no longer have to spend hours of our valuable (and frankly unchargeable) time making sites work in IE6. That's a big fat hooray in anyone's book!

There are still differences between the more up-to-date browsers out there but these are small in comparison to the differences between IE6 and the rest of the bunch including IE6's younger siblings, 7 and 8.

So it's goodbye and good riddance to IE6 which can join Netscape Navigator 4.0 in the webmasters' Hall of Infamy.