It’s 2009 and I think it’s pretty safe to say that anyone who can read probably hates Internet Explorer 6.0. Making sites in IE6 is a pain, and requires useless knowledge specific to this time vampire of a web browser. Most sites are failing to provide any kind of reliable experience within IE6, and Google has basically dropped it from their list of supported browsers for complex applications like GMail.
There have also been a website created to promote the stoppage of IE6 and moving forward to anything else. I’m not going to use any version of Internet Explorer any time soon (except for testing), but I’ve had pretty good luck getting sites to work without issue in IE7 and IE8.
What are we missing by catering to the IE6 crowd?
- Alpha transparent PNG images. This allows sites to create images that blend over one another, without having to create convoluted images stacked on a background color.
- A consistent and sane display model. IE7 won’t be passing Acid 2 any time soon, but it’s leagues better than it’s little brother.
- Legitimate CSS stlying. Right now any site that wants to work in IE6 has to use all kinds of hacks that work against the very concept of the CSS language.
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