IE6 must die

When I was rebuilding this website, I started my cross browser testing and then I started debugging for IE6, then it dawned on me, this is my site and I don't have to fix IE6 "issues".  I started to do some research and found there are many campaigns out there to eliminate IE6 and found some very interesting information.

• IE6 is nine years old now and has 2001 internet security, not exactly safe to say the least
• As of April 2010 it holds 7.9% market share 
  http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
• Ryan Gavin, head of the Internet Explorer business group has been tasked with destroying IE6
  http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/358276/microsoft-man-my-job-is-to-destroy-ie6
• 20% of website development time is spend debugging websites for IE6 
• Google and Apple have stopped supporting IE6 Google in January 2010 
  http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html

The reason it is still around

• According to Forrester Research in May 2009 60% of corporates still used IE6 
  http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10231713-2.html
• Google made a video in NYC asking people what a browser is and only 8% knew the answer 
  http://www.customer-experience-labs.com/2009/06/19/only-8-of-internet-user-know-what-a-browser-is-do-we-have-to-rethink-how-we-market-browser/
• Here is a great article on some of the reason why IE6 is still being used 
  http://css-tricks.com/why-people-still-use-ie-6/
• Because corporates use it to block facebook 
  http://www.zdnet.com.au/ie6-used-as-facebook-blocker-microsoft-339303424.htm

This is really a sad state of affairs and if user don't know or don't care and corporates are reluctant to embrace social media, then why are we still busting ourselves to build for IE6.

So please, if you are a web developer looking at this site,

either add 20% surcharge to develop for IE6 or 

implement one of the below IE6 upgrade script to each and every site you develop.

And now for some humour