It confounds me that people will not upgrade software when it is free. As long as sites are hacked for backwards compatibility, ie users will not see the need to upgrade. I hope more people stop supporting ie6.
This quote really puts some perspective on the problem:
Internet Explorer 6 will be SEVEN years old on August 27th. It came out a few weeks before the Twin Towers fell. It came out before the Nintendo GameCube. It came out before the first iPod.
Bwa-hahaha! Gmail supports IE6!
I have heard criticism in the real world about my opinion regarding ie6. I think this person believes that I am including computer users who are not allowed to install or use modern browsers because they are on an organization’s network where such actions are locked down. In this circumstance, it is not the end user’s fault, rather the network administrator(s). Some orgs might have been shortsighted when developing web applications and developed ONLY for ie6 and are too lazy or understaffed to properly code the application in a standards-based, cross-browser way. This might be fine for users who are using ie6 strictly for these particular apps, but if the users are forced to access the Internet using antiquated, insecure software then there is a good chance that more problems will arise that would require man-hours that could have been used to fix the problem in the first place.