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Why web developers want you to throw away IE6
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As consumers of web information and services, security must always be one of our greatest concerns. The security advisory website, Secunia, have reported 24 unpatched security risks as of February 2010.

As web citizen developers, its important we use & maintain standards to ensure the best and most consistent customer experience for every user no matter what technology they are using. But we run into problems with IE6, spending a lot more time and money on developing fixes for a dinosaur.

  • IE6 was released in 2001 – it’s nearly ten years old. Many corporate organisations are designing web applications with feature sets to cater for the many limitations a ten year old browser.

What's very funny about this, is that many of these organisations are media companies ! :-) Imagine a media compnay that expects you to obtain the latest & best web/mobile content, services and experience from them, when they don't even use an up to date browser?

Web best practice can be found at the web standards governing body website at http://www.w3.org/ . The governance includes Semantic Web & Mobile Web standards to ensure that content & style are separated. Compliance implies that a piece of web content or web page should display in an appropriate and consistent manner on most standards based browsers and devices. It's best practice to use CSS, but there are a few catches for developers!: