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Fixing for Internet Explorer 6 Step-by-Step

Posted by Jordan on May 18th, 2009, 12:51 pm

As a developer, the most frustrating part of my job, and I’m sure I’m not alone here, is fixing a new website for Internet Explorer 6.

IE6 is old; that’s about the size of it. In its hey-day between 2002 and 2003, it peaked at a market share of around 80% of all browsers on the Web. Since then, its usage has steadily declined in light of the gains by modern browsers like Firefox and Opera as well as those users upgrading to the newly released Internet Explorer 7 in 2006. Last month, depending upon whom you ask, IE6 had a market share of about 15.4% of all browsers on the Web.