So Shoot Me I Like Internet Explorer 9!

[partycentralpartygirl]

I tried out IE9.

Probably the fastest browser on the market right now.

At the time I tried it there was no Ad-Block plugin other than a broken one.

If they get a decent Ad-Blocker I will switch. Until then I will use Chrome & Opera.

Could not believe it myself, IE9 is actually a decent browser.

My head exploded.

Been a headless corpse since that day.

[partycentralpartygirl]

As one of those people you describe I agree 110%.  If you take a college/uni course these days you are quickly told that IE is satan.  And yes, the computer illiterate either won't update or don't know how to.  It really is a sad state of affairs.  IE6 in particular has been a bone of contention for many in the industry for far too long, as the years go by people are naturally dropping it, but many workplaces still use it along with XP.  IE7 and IE8 both suck too with huge admissions and stuff that you have to explicit about.  Although IE9 seems to have finally 'got there' I still won't use it as a personal browser.

http://www.ie6countdown.com/

Personally, I am also looking forward to the day that 'everyone' is using a modern HTML5 browser so I don't have to keep writing code for all the time - all the 'new' HTML5 form property will make life for the web designer so much easier as the burden shifts to the browser itself.

Yes I maintain a couple of websites and wish that I could use HTML5 to code it. Unfortunately it's too early at this point. Not just because of IE6 but because people are still going to be accessing sites from mobile platforms and it will take a while to have 100% of users using 100% HTML5 compatible browsers.

I just use CSS and html. I don't worry about coding special for IE6 as my site renders perfectly in all browsers I've tested including IE6.