On: 37signals to Drop IE6 Support

[juanpablo]

Semi-transparent *.png and ":hover" support and lots of Javascript and CSS bugs

[snorkel → juanpablo]

Lots and lots of CSS bugs. So many developer hours have been wasted debugging IE6 issues it's obscene.

[edw519 → juanpablo]

Thank you. Now we're getting somewhere.

[trevelyan → edw519]

Try submitting an AJAX get request with a variable than ends with UTF-8 data (chinese glyph) and has been fetched from the DOM.

I hate IE6.

[Tichy → trevelyan]

Aren't there libraries that handle that kind of stuff for you?

[ajkirwin → juanpablo]

I got fed up and decided not to make things work anymore with IE, when I realised I had a folder of little tweaks that I was including in everything called 'IE Fixes and Workarounds'