I’ve written CSS for almost a decade and it has lead me to develop a natural instinct to write code the right that just works for every browser. This has two part however, the first is that I don’t often go out creating the most uniquely code sites and the second is I’ve found the best way out of the multiple ways to do the same thing. This has lead to browser blindness when I code, i.e. I just use Firefox and hope I don’t have to fix anything when I browser test. In terms of IE6, I don’t do testing for this browser. If people use it, then so be it, because it’s there choice and they must be willing to live with the side effects. Anyway, here’s my “funny” on Browsers and Internet Explorer Six.
Now I know I’m going to get some feedback on the technical aspects of the chart… The data is from W3Schools and is of their April 2009 visitors. In other words, it’s skewed by the fact that the visitors are mainly made up of web developers, rather than the average internet user.
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Or they work for a large corporation or government agency which still uses IE6 in their standard operating environment. Luckily, I run the web team, so I get to use Firefox, but the other 6000 people in my Department are stuck with IE6…
Of course, as a web developer, I can’t wait for IE6 to die!
Not only is this of a real concern or annoyance really for web developers.
But what about for those who are less experienced in web programming and instead are picking up bits and pieces from all sources and just hacking away at pre-existing templates and then only to find out all the nice new things you’ve learnt and added to your themes etc have basically just turned for the worse being viewed in IE6 which doesn’t support halve the nice modifications you’ve made.