The fading pain of IE6

If you’re like me you want IE6 to die, and no, I’m not say this to make you smile. It’s true. IE6 is trash, in today’s market. Its standards support is terrible, for today’s market. It is an old hound. It had its prime. Today it’s a royal pain under the design constraints of 2010. However, until IE6 is gone we will have to deal with it sooner or later.

One less hair for IE6

Yes, its 2010, but people still use IE6… not many, but enough to be depressing. Still, all is not lost. I happen to run across lesser known PNG fix for the aging browser. It’s called DD_belatedPNG. Unlike the traditional iepngfix.htc hack this bad boy gives you the ability to use positioned backgrounds and still retain transparency, among other things. Check it out for yourself.

No hairs for IE

However, if you don’t want anything to do with IE6, you’re in luck. Just recently Andy Clark updated his universal IE6 CSS on Google code. The new version lets you scrap the browser completely by serving it a nicely pruned style sheet that does just enough to be professional. Consider it the default style sheet you wish IE6 came with.