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Internet Explorer 6 - Almost Dead!
By Darren E

Internet Explorer 6 is almost dead! And we should let it die! IE6 is a dinosaur and a thorn in almost every modern web developer's side. If you are a web developer or web designer, you should stop supporting IE6 and make suggestions to people to upgrade their browser instead. Why? Because Internet 7 and now Internet 8 are out and readily available. As a web designer, do you *REALLY* want to support 3 browsers? We know that we most certainly DO NOT!

We should take a stand and make IE6 die by encouraging users to update their browsers.

Better Alternatives to IE6 - FOR FREE! There are so many good (and free) browsers on the market now. Internet Explorer 8 has recently been released while Internet Explorer 7 has been out since 2006! Other browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Apple's Safari, and Google's Chrome are also good alternatives to Microsoft's latest editions of Internet Explorer. These newer browsers follow the World Wide Web Consortium (aka W3C) standards which are set to make your web browsing experience equal across all platforms.

Reasons Why IE6 Causes Problems For starters, IE6 does not render .PNG files properly. Most modern web designers take full advantage of .PNG transparencies to create visually appealing websites. In order to make IE6 render these .PNG files properly, special scripts must be run to force IE6 to render the .PNG files so the transparencies are displayed correctly.

IE6 also has quirks with how it renders CSS files and requires special CSS hacks and work-arounds to make the page display properly. CSS is important to the web development community because it separates web content from the presentation (graphics) allowing for faster load times, flexibility, and accessibility. Because IE6 has many quirks when dealing with CSS - designers and developers must hunt down and "fix" these discrepancies. In other words, web designers have to cater to 1 browser because it is not playing by the rules while IE8, IE7, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome are all following web standards.

What are you waiting for? Let's MURDER IE6! If you are a web developer who no longer wants to waste time catering to problems dealt by IE6, We have listed several website which will help your users update their old (and OUT-DATED) Internet Explorer 6!

• IE6 Update - A really effective way to get users to update!
• IE6 Death March - Join a group of developers who refuse to support IE6

Darren E
Modern Media Studios
Internet Marketing & Web Design
http://modernmediastudios.com

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