diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index c0c57b42..84bd65ff 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ os:
   - linux
   - osx
 julia:
-  - 0.5
   - 0.6
 notifications:
   email: false
diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 74fce839..33ac720b 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
-julia 0.5
+julia 0.6
 Compat 0.9.1
 JSON
 Requires
 NodeJS
 Cairo
 Rsvg
+IteratorInterfaceExtensions 0.0.1
+TableTraits 0.0.2
+IterableTables
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 7d33adeb..3e8b9d9b 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 environment:
   matrix:
-  - JULIA_URL: "https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/winnt/x86/0.5/julia-0.5-latest-win32.exe"
-  - JULIA_URL: "https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/winnt/x64/0.5/julia-0.5-latest-win64.exe"
   - JULIA_URL: "https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/winnt/x86/0.6/julia-0.6-latest-win32.exe"
   - JULIA_URL: "https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/winnt/x64/0.6/julia-0.6-latest-win64.exe"
 
diff --git a/src/VegaLite.jl b/src/VegaLite.jl
index 3db89c85..06b6907a 100644
--- a/src/VegaLite.jl
+++ b/src/VegaLite.jl
@@ -3,12 +3,18 @@ VERSION >= v"0.4" && __precompile__()
 module VegaLite
 
 using JSON, Compat, Requires, NodeJS, Cairo, Rsvg
+import IteratorInterfaceExtensions, TableTraits
 # using PhantomJS
 
 # import Base: show
 import Base: display, REPL.REPLDisplay
 import Base: |>
 
+# This import can eventually be removed, it currently just makes sure
+# that the iterable tables integration for DataFrames and friends
+# is loaded
+import IterableTables
+
 export renderer, actionlinks, junoplotpane, png, svg, jgp, pdf, savefig
 
 
@@ -82,29 +88,22 @@ include("juno_integration.jl")
 include("io.jl")
 include("show.jl")
 
+### TableTraits.jl integration
 
-########################  conditional definitions  #######################
+function vldata(d)
+    TableTraits.isiterabletable(d) || error("Only iterable tables can be passed to vldata.")
 
-### Integration with DataFrames
-@require DataFrames begin
-  function vldata(d::DataFrames.DataFrame)
-    recs = [ Dict(r) for r in DataFrames.eachrow(d) ]
-    VegaLite.VLSpec{:data}(Dict("values" => recs))
-  end
+    it = IteratorInterfaceExtensions.getiterator(d)
 
-  |>(a::DataFrames.DataFrame, b::VLSpec) = vldata(a) |> b
-end
+    recs = [Dict(c[1]=>isnull(c[2]) ? nothing : get(c[2])  for c in zip(keys(r), values(r))) for r in it ]
 
-### Integration with DataTables
-@require DataTables begin
-  function vldata(d::DataTables.DataTable)
-    recs = [ Dict(r) for r in DataTables.eachrow(d) ]
     VegaLite.VLSpec{:data}(Dict("values" => recs))
-  end
-
-  |>(a::DataTables.DataTable, b::VLSpec) = vldata(a) |> b
 end
 
+|>(a, b::VLSpec) = vldata(a) |> b
+
+########################  conditional definitions  #######################
+
 ### Integration with Juno
 include("juno_integration.jl")