Is IE5 Dead?

Feb 26, 2008 by Matt | Posted in Software & Scripts 9 Comments

Internet Explorer version 5 was released on March 18, 1999. It has almost been nine years since its initial release, and two more versions have followed.

We all know that IE5 is a buggy piece of software with fairly awful standards support, though it was significantly better than its predecessor IE4. It’s no secret that I’m no fan of Microsoft’s browsers, but I do have to grudgingly admit that they’ve come a long way.

I was comparing stats on a couple of my web sites recently, and I wondered: Do we need to continue supporting Internet Explorer 5? There have been two major versions released since, and nine years is a long time in computer years. To put it in perspective, look at this timeline:

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Some Uses For URL Shorteners

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Homepage Excerpts Plugin

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125×125 Ads

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BlogBuzz February 23, 2008

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Akismet for SMF

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For Newbies: Posts For Beginning Bloggers

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Are you new to this whole blogging thing? Are you trying to start your first blog? I try to cover a wide array of web-related topics here on WSC, and balance things between the basic and the advanced (leaning a little towards advanced often).…