IE 6 No More No More
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Wednesday 5 August 2009 12:31

While topics like this are still able to trend on
twitter, you know twitter is mostly used by a
certain kind of media professionals. And the other
trending topics are also just what those media
professionals are interested in, not what the
general population is interested in. And to
illustrate the intelligence of those media
professionals: 10 out of 12 "popular web companies"
whine about IE6 while the code of their homepage
doesn't even validate:

  * Weebly 45 errors

  * Justin.tv 46 errors

  * Disqus 204 errors

  * Posterous 36 errors

  * Divvyshot 113 errors

  * Buxfer 268 errors

  * twitluv 5 errors

  * happn.in cannot be checked

  * Defensio.com 3 errors

  * 31bits.com cannot be checked

You can of course try to convince your boss it's
IE6's fault the site you created looks like shit in
that browser, but don't go all over the internet
with that crap. It makes you look like shit as
well.

The following two sites validated, but I can't see
why they would have trouble supporting IE6:

  * digital dandelion Valid HTML Strict!

  * Reddit.tv Valid XHTML Strict!

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/work/2009/08/05/ie-6-no-more-no-more/