Out-dated browser that nobody should be using (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6)

Member Name: stuff10

Product:	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Date:	19/05/09 (8 review reads)
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Advantages: Anyone?

Disadvantages: Where do we start?

Internet Explorer 6 is the browser that's holding up the development of the web.

The problem with IE6 is that it's a legacy browser - released in 2001 which in software terms means it's about as old as the dinosaurs, unfortunately it's not extinct like they are though.

At the time, IE wasn't actually a bad web browser - it was good at what it did and most people used it. However, Microsoft just sat back thinking their work was done while the web and the people that used the web evolved.

CSS became mainstream for web developers and table-based designs were out, this was a great leap forward in the young industry of web development but unfortunately we couldn't (and still can't) use some of these techniques as IE6 doesn't support them. So we have to spend hours of our time developing workarounds so that the few unlucky people that are stuck with IE6 can view our sites.

Internet users have also evolved since 2001. As a whole we're all much more experienced and confident when using the web. We want to look at more than one website at a time, but we don't want dozens of windows filling up our taskbar, which is why Opera's invention of tabbed browsing was such a huge leap forward for us.

If you're still using IE6 you're either stuck with it cos of your set-up at work or you're using it out of choice. For any of you who fall into the latter group... do yourselves and the world a favour and upgrade to Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera.

Summary: Please please please please upgrade to another browser

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