Boriskan.com

This site doesn't support IE6

and I will tell you why.

There are tons of reason on why you shouldn't use it anymore so I am not going to repeat theirs. Here is mine: Why do you drive in a broken 1989 Civic if you can drive 2010 Mercedes Benz for FREE?

1. Not my target users:

My target users are designers, recruiters, art directors and people who have an appreciation the revolution of the web. Therefore, I am sure a good percentage of them use IE8, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Opera. I am trying to present myself through the web using CSS3, HTML5 and png, which requires the browsers I mentioned before.

2. Cost:

Technically, it doesn't cost me a dime. I can make my site efficient in IE 6. However, I have spent too much time making sites available in IE6 when I was in previous job(I was quite good at it after awhile) since many of their customers uses IE6. However, I am not really selling anything to anyone who uses IE6, I don't think supporting IE6 is necessary in this case.

3. Microsoft is not supporting it anymore.

Of course they don't, they want you to have a better browsing experience. If you really want to use IE, here you go.

4. I met this guy before and he said this:

The quote below is from bringdownie6.com.:

“IE6 is the new Netscape 4. The hacks needed to support IE6 are increasingly viewed as excess freight. Like Netscape 4 in 2000, IE6 is perceived to be holding back the web.”

Jeff Zeldman, standards guru

5. HTML5:

I will switch my site to HTML5 within a year and IE6 doesn't support it. In case you don't know I have been playing with it a little bit already.