stop crying, we have to support IE 6.0
I am tired of seeing numerous post about not supporting IE 6.0 anymore.
If you look at the sentiments from the web developer community most of them are tired of writing hacks for IE 6.0 specific. For a change I dont consider IE 6.0 as enemy of the web developer. I think its the bad development practice of developer that create issues.
For example, when you know IE 6.0 have issues like box model you still tend to avoid doctype or excessive usage of padding on your div tags. How many of us actually take the pain to validate our css and HTML for each single page we develop on a daily basis.
Why IE 6.0 is still valid and important?
If you install a fresh windows xp even today, by default the browser version is IE 6.0. Even today, there are plenty of customers who are on windows xp and stick with whatever gets shipped in the package. IE 6.0 user base is fading but still its a very large user base to ignore completely.
My Two cents
Stop crying. Seriously. If your page is having cross browser issues, 70% of the time your HTML/CSS is not cross browser friendly.
Upgrade yourself to FF 3.5 or new chrome but don’t expect your users to do that. Upgrade your knowledge and try to develop solid css and html to fight against cross browser issue.
Resources
I should show you some way to get there also right?
6 Steps to Create a Cross-Browser Friendly Web Page
