It’s no secret that I, along with every other web designer, absolutely despise Internet Explorer.  The real problem for many years has been Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)  due to it’s lack of anything useful.  Microsoft is notorious for putting out terrible products including their archaic web browsing platform.  We’ve spent countless hours cursing it’s name and having to write special code and fixes in order for our websites to even look somewhat normal in the browser.  Over the past couple of years, some have just been fed up with it and said enough-is-enough.

Luckily for us, the mothership Google recently decided to stop supporting IE6.  With one press release, the entire web community took a giant sigh of relief.  Google really sets the bar when it comes to web trends and that means if Google doesn’t support it, then I won’t either.  In fact, I was mid-code on my IE6 style sheet for this site when the announcement came and I said “screw it!” and just abandoned it.  As a result, if you look at my site in IE 6 it won’t work all that well.  But then again, if you are using IE 6 then you probably shouldn’t be using the internet anyway!

Now all kinds of celebratory websites have been popping up, my favorite of which is iefuneral.com .  So with no sadness in anyway way, shape, or form, do I say good riddance to you IE 6.  Now we just need to get rid of 7 and 8!

Tags: Google, IE6 sucks, Microsoft