Internet Explorer 6

It appears that ie6 will be dropped by Google in the beginning of March and Youtube will drop support shortly after. Many other sites have dropped support for ie6 like digg. Although these are all blows to the browser it probably will still be a few more years before it's finally insignificant enough to not worry about. Pinnakl will continue to support ie6 if it's important to our clients and their users. This browser ultimately costs our clients many more hours to support. We are very excited about html5 and css3 standards that are still in the works and of course are coding standards that ie6 will never support.

The slow and painful death of ie6 is celebrated by most developers looking forward to the future of the internet. Aside from the fact that ie6 is very difficult to get a website to look correctly it's also insecure which is what prompted Google to ultimately drop it. Google was recently hacked because of a bug in ie6, Microsoft issued a fix for this bug but this is just a band-aid on a very broken browser. What do you think? Give us your thoughts on the browser and if you still use it and if so why?

Update: Amazon, yet another large internet company, is also dropping support for ie6. Some may argue that they will lose money by not selling to this audience, but on the other hand they are also saving a lot of time, money, and energy by not supporting an old browser. These redirected resources can lead to a much better website for those of us with current browsers to enjoy.