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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.

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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.

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