When will it be gone?
Both of us is web designer, we do a lot of design and coding (Well, I did mostly on coding though). Honestly, IE6 has been a pain in the arse. Our main browser is Google Chrome, my development browser is none other than FireFox. Running Windows Vista Home Basic, obviously I cannot get IE6 install, not to mention the stand-alone version. I did think about using a Virtualbox to install a late version of Windows so I get to test in IE6, but it is a hassle and time taker.
Mostly when I did my own blog/project design, I don’t care much about IE6 and how it would look like. I mean, come on, it’s 8 year-old! In Internet, you should multiple year to 12. Basically IE6 = 8 year-old x 12 Internet year = 96 year-old. Time to go!
Technically, we, web designer, are very much depending on how Microsoft gonna take the step to release their Windows 7. From my observation, Windows 7 coming out too quick after the release of Windows Vista. This is to top their failure on pursuing people to upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP, and not to mention the IE update. Very quick, Windows 98 stuck with IE5.5, Windows XP stuck with IE6, Windows Vista has a great IE7 at least and Windows 7 is gonna ship with IE8. As you can see there, IE7 seems to stop just a while. Ah… It’s the mindset! When people started to notice that they are way behind, they will definitely catch up a little bit, this little bit is what web designers are hoping for, really!