We had an uneasy feeling that we ought to support IE6 for the default theme of OpenWack – the one that will be bundled with the basic distro and will always be used for admin area. But then we decided to look at WackWall stats. If a million pageviews a month is any indication we found out that IE6 is used by less than 8% of visitors on WackWall social networks. So we decided to join the camp of those designers who prefer to ignore IE6 and its incurable problems.

Internet Explorer 6, an ugly creature – you can wrap up in a white shroud and crawl to the graveyard where you belong. The reason you are still undead is another big Microsoft failure – Windows Vista. If people did not snatch at their non-upgraded Windows XP copies IE6 would be long gone.

I think IE6 problems are well-documented on the web by designers so I’ll spare you the rhetoric. Default theme for OpenWack will not support IE6.