As any professional web developer knows, cross-browser testing is one of those day to day mundane tasks that's required for most web UI work. You've spent time creating beautiful UI mock ups with that creative mind of yours, transferred that to HTML and it looks good. Chrome and Firefox is pixel perfect. Then it's that moment you've been putting off - what does it look like in IE? Boom. You're spending the rest of the day, turning that beautiful HTML and CSS into a shambolic hack before it finally resembles what you intended it to.
OVER 10 YEARS AGO!
OVER 10 YEARS AGO!
OVER 10 YEARS AGO!
OVER 10 YEARS AGO!
OVER 10 YEARS AGO!
OVER 10 YEARS AGO!
OVER 10 YEARS AGO!
...when we laughed our socks off to Monsters inc and Apple introduced us to the iPod; Microsoft gave birth to Internet Explorer 6. It's still to this day stifling the creativity and wasting the time of web developers across the globe. If you find yourself in the unlucky position where a decent percentage of your target audience is still living in the past on IE 6 (or 7 or 8) you're hands are often tied. It requires a bold business decision to say no to IE6 support. Some people, projects and companies are doing this - in some interesting ways too (IE7 tax). Even Microsoft are fed up and have created their own IE6 count down site to encourage people to upgrade. But this act of redemption is too little too late. Saying that, the site is fairly interesting. It displays the stats of IE6 usage around the world. Surprisingly, China being the worst offenders still. Here's an article I found that outlines the reasons why China still favours IE6.
Rant over.
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