IE6 It is time to let go!
Our team has debated this since 2 years now. When all templates clubs simply decided to stop supporting IE6 we continued our course and implemented all possible patches you might need for it. And there is plenty of them. But since recent Microsoft website ie6countdown.com came out where they bash their own product and urge everyone to update, it is time for us to simply play along. We gave our best shoot and it is time to move on.
It is time for us to advise our customers to stop supporting one of the worst browsers ever made. It is time for all our developer club members to advise their customers to click on a upgrade button.
All our templates have the IE6 upgrade notice especially YJSimpleGridbased ones. So please turn it on in your template settings and advise your visitors to upgrade. Understand that we will not cut all existing patches for IE6, but rather just not add new ones. All our templates have ifie6 options and ifie6 css files. You are more than welcome to still use them.
But from today's date we will not have any special hacks for IE6 and we will not add any new ones for all our future products.
We all went crazy when Joomla was going from 1.0 to 1.5 to 1.6. Everyone was upgrading without thinking twice about it. So why not push the IE6 upgrade? We all know what type of product it is , and we all know that there is so many better options like Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome. You still want to stick with IE , fine, get IE8 or IE9. It is compliant and has none of the issues like IE6.
