Why I hate Internet Explorer 6 aka IE6

I can’t stress how much I dislike IE6. While I was building this site, tbxstudio.com I figure IE6 was dyeing and eventually everyone will have the latest browsers with better rendering engine. Well, I was wrong.

I been looking at this page displaying the statistics for the latest information on current browsers and I notice that IE6 is on the decline. Currently it looks like IE6 is around the 9%-10% mark and in about 12 months IE6 would end up in about 5% of total usage for all internet users.

With the information, I thought it was safe for me to stop checking for IE6. This was exactly what I end up not doing. Then I been applying for a full-time position as a web designer and been sending out my resume with links to my website. When I check my web site’s statistics to see who been coming and I notice many of the employers still using IE6! About 15%-20% are still using IE6 to view my site. Ha!

Now I had no choice but to open up IE6 to see what is wrong. Then fix it with CSS by adding this line to the header.

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<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://tbxstudio.com/wp-content/themes/tbxstudio/styleIE6.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->

When someone is using IE6, the styleIE6.css will load and display the correct styling for their IE6 browser. I also have it for IE7.

It took me a few hours to have IE6 looking the way it should with about a dozen or so lines in the styleIE6.css

IE7 only had about a few lines and it didn’t took as long as IE6.
I am crossing my fingers for another 2 years I do not have to worry about IE6.

This is why I hate IE6 because of its poor rendering engine and extra time to fix the CSS.
Please upgrade to IE8! Better yet, get FireFox

More articles about IE6:

Stop the Hate – IE6 Isn’t So Bad!
One Year to Go on the IE 6 Deathwatch

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