Since it came up, again, al­low me to re­tort. This isn't aimed at mr.mad­sen, who had the balls to quit his job to pur­sue artis­tic in­tegri­ty and is there­fore an ex­am­ple for all wannabe mr.mad­sens.

The real is­sue is sites like stopie6.org, stopie6.com and reg­u­lar whin­ing about IE6 on LinkedIn An­swers. While those sites pre­tend to be help­ing IE6 users to a bet­ter place, for a web de­vel­op­er it's ob­vi­ous the ben­e­fits for the user to up­date it's brows­er are neg­li­gi­ble com­pared to the ben­e­fits for the not so skilled de­vel­op­er to make the user up­date and drop IE6 sup­port. But those not so skilled de­vel­op­ers live in their own bl­o­gos­phere and to­tal­ly lack the skills to con­vince the reg­u­lar peo­ple that are the IE6 users to change their brows­er. Their ar­gu­men­ta­tion is more like a con­test for peo­ple who like to piss off, the in their view, Un­ter­men­schen that work for some cor­po­rate com­pa­ny that is not us­ing the lat­est mod­els MacBook, and that doesn't help. I'm not say­ing this post helps, main­ly be­cause you'd need the IP ad­dress­es of all wannabe graph­ic de­sign­ers whin­ing about IE6 to have it only tar­get the right au­di­ence of a site, but at least I don't go reg­is­ter­ing a do­main name for it to pre­tend it mat­ters:

The best thing is of course, you can just add "be­cause mine is too. I use IE6" to make it work for the op­po­site point.

And if you're won­der­ing why can't I read this web page in IE6, or even IE8? IE doesn't prop­er­ly sup­port XHTML, and putting any ef­fort in just stop­ping IE6 is just a missed op­por­tu­ni­ty to stop IE al­to­geth­er.