on Web Design & SEO

It's great news - particularly for any developer trying to explain to clients why they perhaps need to let IE6 go.

Google is dropping support for IE6

Google have announced that from 1st March 2010, they are dropping support for IE6 (Internet Explorer 6).

This browser is now 10 years old, very buggy and a nightmare to get sites working in using the latest technologies and best practice techniques - but it can still be difficult to explain to clients why it's not such a great idea to insist on their website looking and functioning perfectly in this browser.

Now we can demonstrate it's such a dinosaur and a minority browser that even Google don't support it anymore, it's going to be a great way to get the argument across.

There's a wealth of alternative browsers now, all of which are free, more secure, faster and offering a far better user experience - so it's certainly no bad thing that another nail is driven into IE6's coffin and users persisting with it are given a further push towards upgrading.