I use TinyMCE in a few applications, so I frequent the Moxiecode page. Today I was there and noticed that their news feed had this headline: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010.

I actually got a little excited thinking that someone had finally drawn a line in the sand. It’s my belief that this is a perfectly reasonable stance to take. However, to my dismay, it was an April Fool’s prank pulled off by the Moxiecode team.

Support for IE6 in particular just kills me. It’s not a modern browser, and sites should be blasting out messages to IE6 users urging them to upgrade. For my part, I often use links to browsehappy.com in my page footers, and turn it on via user agent sniffing. The evolution of the web absolutely demands shedding the past, and now is as good a time as any, if you asked me.

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