Drop old IE support?

Hey gang,

Question 1: is it worth trying to maintain and test IE6 and IE7
support?  My personal vote is no.  I'm doing my best to check IE8 and
IE9 properly, but really don't want to attempt to fire up an IE6
installation for testing.

Question 2: should we continue to support IE8?  My personal vote is
yes.  It's the latest IE an XP user could use, and I doubt I'm the
only one whose grandparents would be upset when they can't see photos
with their IE8-powered XP machines :-).

Some background: as some of you may know, jQuery 2.0 is already in the
works and officially drops old IE support.  They define "old IE" as
anything pre-IE9.
http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/15/jquery-1-9-final-jquery-2-0-beta-migrate-final-released/

I imagine in the not-too-distant future we'll be running jQuery 1.9
and 2.0 simultaneously, as suggested in the blog post above.

Thoughts?

Take care,
Shad

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