Just to note, the posting was on July 24, 2008. (I was ready to jump for joy, but instead, feel disappointed that this is old)

Yes, Facebook has refreshed their design at least once (and I'm pretty sure twice) since this.

"We're not cool enough" is a pretty awesome customer service position to take, if only because they later added IE6 compatibility. It would come across as dishonest and passive-aggressive if they were using it to badger their customers into upgrading to a better browser.

it should be noted that they later added IE6 support

Arghhh man u just ruined the moment for me.... I thought finally we were one step closer to a better world.

So nowadays people make screenshots with a camera.

For us in the web world that do contract work for clients, whether or not Facebook supports IE6 has no meaning. If the client is using IE6, you bet your sweet ass all of our fancy CSS and Javascript better support it, no matter what the traffic numbers may say.

Also, when 25% of their traffic is still IE6, it's a hard sell to tell the client to just 'forget' those users.

But when a large site like Facebook stops supporting IE6, lots of people will upgrade. Facebook is an "important" site, in that people want to use it, no matter what.

I'd say the majority of us web people aren't working for sites as large and important as Facebook -- thus, we can't dictate anything to our users. We can, however, benefit from the anti-IE6 momentum they create.

Killing IE6 has to start from the top.

It should happen. Let us all soldier on bravely into a world where software gets replaced with better code, and those at the bottom of the compatibility curve get annoying messages until they upgrade.

oh my - this could have been awesome

IE6 isn't all that hard to support with the ie8.js plugin

this is kind of awesome... I wonder if there will be any negligible bump in overall browser usage stats as a result of this.