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Stop Supporting IE6

As a community, as a whole, web designers and developers need to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6. Now. Completely. I’ve been thinking a lot about browser compatibility as I’ve been working on Today’s Meet. My CSS is valid, but it doesn’t work quite right in IE6.

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Chrome Is Not A Browser

If you somehow haven’t heard of it, Google’s Chrome is a neat, quick, Acid2-compliant “browser” designed to work with web applications, not web pages. Chrome certainly looks like a modern browser, with tabs along the top and an address bar and a “Most visited” home screen, it will

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Microsoft Listened

We all complained, and Microsoft listened to the community: IE8 will now render in IE8-mode by default, and “developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that explicitly.” Obviously, this is good news for all forward-looking, standards-aware, progressively-enhancing developers out there. But

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IE8 and Version Targeting

Two months after the whole of the internet has had their say, I thought I’d throw some new kindling on the fire of Internet Explorer 8’s version-targeting mechanism. It’s crap. The key issue is the default behavior: if I never change my server configuration or every page