Happy Retirement IE6
IE6 has long been a thorn in many a web designer/developers side, its years old and doesn’t render sites as well as modern browsers. According to the latest statistics at the time of this post IE6 accounts for 17.4% of browser usage, and this figure I suspect is still dropping, but not fast enough for most of us. Developing for IE6 always takes extra time than for other browsers and time is money. The magazine .net have started a campaign (Bring Down IE6) to phase out IE6 and I would urge everyone to join it and spread the word. There is no reason in this day and age for any web browser not to be standards compliant and the fact IE6 isn’t is holding back the progress of the web and dulling user experience. There really is no excuse for it and MicroSoft should have retired 6 long ago. The longer IE6 lingers on with its slow death the more damage it does to the MicroSoft brand image, damage that will be very hard to undo if this situation is allowed to continue. Let’s all try and give them a big helping hand by not using it or supporting it.
Just a quick reminder that IE8 is on its way bring with it new controversy and development puzzles all of its own. Prehaps MicroSoft should stop fighting against all the other browsers and start joining them in making the web a much more enjoyable place to spend time for the user. A place filled with web sites that all support the same coding standards and don’t break in certain browsers.
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Internet Explorer 8 is very good because it is as stable as Opera. I hate the previous versions of IE like IE6 because it hangs frequently. .
Internet Explorer 8 have been my most used browser this year, it is definitely stable and fast loading too. -