Bye Bye Internet Explorer 6

If you are a webdesigner / webdeveloper who creates websites using technology like XHTML, CSS and Javascript trying to use webstandaards… Then you now what I mean.

IE6 just sucks when it comes to web standards.
It doesn't support all CSS rules, hates PNG transparency, renders terrible fonts, etc. IE6 is also very 'unsafe' since the report of Secunia about IE6. Even the next version (2.0) of the CMS (expression engine) we mostly use will no longer support IE6.
For a full list of online remarks I've found, see my delicious.

Now that the final IE8 is launched since March 19, 2009 I've found another reason
to abandon IE6. And it gets even better: Microsoft have announced that Internet Explorer 8.0 will be released via the Windows Automatic Update starting on the third week of April 2009. Which is very soon. Keeps me in mind that I still need to test this website on the new IE8.

So as of march 2009, Pixelman no longer supports IE6 in his websites. Except on demand, but this will be charged as an xtra fee. To help users to switch we now use a kind of alert message which ‘pops up’ (see above) if you watch our websites on IE6. It mentions the problem and links to alternative modern browers.

FYI
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (commonly abbreviated to IE6), is a graphical web browser developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 lines of operating systems. It was the most widely used web browser during its tenure (surpassing Internet Explorer 5.x), attaining a peak in usage share during 2002 and 2003 in the high 80s, and together with other versions up to 95% in 2003. It only slowly declined up to 2007, when it lost about half its market share to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox between late 2006 to 2008.
More detailed info on this piece of software on source wikipedia.