IE6 End of life at FlowT8 Media
IE6 has had a long run it was originally released on August 27, 2001 just before the release of Windows XP. For Nine years its has been around with its reputation of being a security risk.
Supporting Internet Explorer 6 has long been the bane of the web developer. Even without the CSS support, the quirks, bugs, and just plain erroneous handling of common XHTML and CSS elements means that a design that works flawlessly in Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc, requires hours or even days of ‘hacking’ to get it working reliably on IE6. Also due to features that are just not available in IE6, designers often have to sacrifice design elements or layouts entirely just to ensure that IE6 viewers are not left with a big mess on their displays. It’s long been said that IE6 is holding back the web, and this has never been truer than it is today. The latest versions of Chrome, Safari 4, Firefox 3.5, and Opera 10 support innovative features that allow web applications be in the same league as their desktop counterparts. Many business, organizations, and even entire countries have already made a stand and have stopped supporting IE6 on their sites and applications.
