EE 2.0 Drops Support for IE 6
Every couple of weeks, EllisLab updates their blog with information about the progress of EE 2.0 development. This week they announced that the EE 2.0 control panel will not support Internet Explorer 6.
The entire reason we’re making ExpressionEngine 2.0 a CodeIgniter application is because we want to establish it as a valid platform for years to come. It was a forward thinking decision, one that has informed everything else about 2.0’s design and implementation. IE6 is not forward thinking and hasn’t been considered a “modern browser” for 5 years.
I want to reiterate that this won’t affect how you build the front-end of your website. You can support IE 6 (or 5, if you want) with your design and XHTML templates, but in order to use the ExpressionEngine 2.0 control panel in its intended way, you cannot be using IE 6.
Good move, says I.
Posted on Apr 03, 2009 by Ryan Irelan
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Richard Lomas — 10:21 on 04.08.2009
Thank goodness.
The sooner that everything IE6 disappears into the memory books, the better.