Fare thee well IE6
Looks like every web designer’s arch nemesis web browser, Internet Explorer 6, has finally kicked the bucket, at least ceremonially. A funeral will be held today, Thursday, March 4, 2010 by the Aten Design Group of Denver, CO.
Released in 2001, IE6 was the standard for Web surfing for most users until 2006, when Microsoft launched IE7. The most recent version, Internet Explorer 8, followed in March 2009.
The web has evolved so much over the last ten years, and old browsers like IE6 have a hard time running many of the new interactive applications like video and voice, unlike their spry youthful competitors. In fact, IE6 really isn’t dead yet. It still occupies 19.8% of the browser market (as of Feb 2010) much to the dismay of fellow web designers who have to spend countless hours tweaking and wrangling code to comply with the decrepit old geezer. Looking back, I guess I owe a slight debt of gratitude to the deceased… it taught me to be a better coder.
Rest in peace old friend.
