defending IE6
Speaking as someone who used to be a web designer, this sort of thought process is just unbelievable. IE6 is a
horrible browser. It's worse than horrible - it's a kludged together clusterfuck of half-assed, half-ignored standards from a time where most of the decent shit wasn't even in competing browsers. It doesn't support canvas, Javascript performance is prehistoric, it barely implements a quarter of the CSS2 standard (let alone 2.1 or 3.0), it doesn't even do HTML right.
And no, you can't just go "lol fuk u gais, upgrade" because IE6 still represents a significant portion of visitors (estimated 16.18%) to any given site. So you're forced to either cripple the experience for everyone else so a nearly
10-year old browser can ruin it for everyone, or implement a chain of huge fucking hacks to fake it. And no, it's not ok to get by on faking it. It is the browser that is literally killing innovation on the Web. We're doing so much cool shit in modern browsers - even modern IE versions. The web is a really damn exciting place to be, and all the new things, experiences, and possibilities that have been made possible with new HTML / CSS / Javscript standards and new browsers is literally being
ruined by IE6 because its very existence invalidates using any of it on any large website. It is holding everyone back.
You don't seem to understand. IE6 is a popular corporate platform. It's something they know and have used since forever. They aren't going to upgrade. They won't listen to logic - they'll continue to use IE6 until such time as literally collapses around them. You can't code them out. That's where the money is coming from, that's what they'll pay you to code it to render on. And all it'll take is one physically or mentally disabled user using IE6 and some piece of software that
only works in IE6 because it's a corporate product to not be able to use your website, discover that you've done it
deliberately and bam, that's a lawsuit on your arse.
You're defending a decade old piece of software that to this day still receives security updates every month. You're defending software that is literally outdated, outclassed, and outperformed by every other alternative on the market. You're defending software that is stagnating the web and killing the incentive for innovation and progress.
You are the problem I wish we could all ignore.