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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	So an article has been going round work about how IE6 is holding the web back, it's not exactly a new topic, we've heard it all before no doubt, but this time IE6 a browser that was once something to rely on, is now the butt of the joke here and has taken the place of legacy browsers before it, such as NS4 IE5.5 etc. [url=http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/]IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On[/url] Now once upon a time I would have gladly joined the mob and put up big modal dialogue boxes on my website to stop users entering with a browser I didn't like. But these days and especially with IE6 I feel that's just the wrong way to go about it. What with some great discussions we've had here and other articles I've read on the web I've realised that there are ways to get around these quirks without offending anyone. Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement are two paths that I hold close to heart these days and at the very least a website should degrade to a suitable user experience on IE6. Hacks and Conditional Comments allow quick targeting for specific issues, but I'm of the belief nowadays that generally with the right combination of rules that you don't even need to resort to these methods in the majority of cases. So I wanted to bring it back to the Asylum, and see what are the current thoughts of my inmates, what goals do you seek to achieve with the myriad of browsers out there, and what do you intend to do when it comes to supporting IE6? Cheers, [url=http://www.alebie.com][img]http://www.geocities.com/blaise69dude/images/BlaiseSig.gif[/img][/url] Loading...
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