finn.no is a bit lame...
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Friday 20 February 2009 22:53

If they are going to make a big deal out of it,
wouldn't it be a bit less hypocritical if their
site would validate? So if people actually stopped
using Internet Explorer 6, what will be the next
excuse to complain about how hard the life of a web
developer is? Like nobody else in IT has to support
odd systems that won't go away. If you don't like
that then get out of the web development business
if you can. But most of those HTML monkeys probably
can't, lacking the design skills to make it into a
proper design job and lacking the development
skills to make it into a proper development job.
They are the IE6 of the media industry.

Most other developers have skills that they can use
to automate part of their own tasks, so the boring
parts of their jobs have since ages been replaced
by make, automake, autoconf, svn, apt, etc. and
some can even develop their own IDE to suit all
their needs. But web developers only have the
skills to blog about the problems they have, which
leads to a huge pile of posts and websites about
issues, and hardly anybody who actually provides a
solution that doesn't involve reading some
semi-official way-to-long tutorial only to be able
to manually implement a workaround, which you then
would have to repeat for every site you build. No
wonder they get tired of supporting IE6 and the
only solution they see it to make it go away.

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/dull/2009/02/20/finn-no-is-a-bit-lame/