FUCK IE6
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- doctor0
As much as I want IE6 dead and the developer team prosecuted, I think it's wrong to ditch it. "WTF dude?!!" you ask?
Here is why:
- You can never expect users to understand you technological reasons for not providing them with the content they need.
- Messing with the users, especially when talking about a potential +20 percent of them, will backfire at some point.
- Depending on who you design for and where they're located, it could be illegal to block IE6 users and/or provide them with different content, like sr_5's example. Especially in the US (they have http://www.section508.gov) but also in UK and a few other European countries, this issue is taken seriously.
- Designs don't have to look exactly the same in different browsers. We need to get over it. I recommend reading this, by Andy Clark on this topic: http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog…
IE6 isn't dead though it STINKS!