I’m not developing for IE6, and haven’t done so the last year or two. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying that users using IE6 will be kicked out of my sites – that would be harsh for those poor guys and girls who don’t have a choice – or know any better. (And as it still has quite a big share of users I would be a fool to send them of just like that ).

In general this is how I treat IE6:

I’ll create my site, and while developing I’ll test it in Opera, Firefox, Safari, IE7 etc.  So, after the HTML, CSS and eventually Javascript is finished, then I’ll check it in IE6. If the content is easily readable/reachable, the menu is usable and the different parts of the layout is generally in the right places then I won’t bother at all. If, on the other hand things actually doesn’t work (although, after quite some years developing for IE6, I do manage to avoid most of the traps) then I’ll obviously fix until the above requirements are met.

I _won’t_ patch for min-width, max-width and the other missing features, I’ll perhaps have to add a little fix for some margin-related bugs (like the double-margin-on-float-bug), and with some designs I’ll have to add a little rule to fix png-transparency, that’s it.

Note: Pixel-perfectionism is something I don’t believe belong to web at all, being the flexible medium it is.

So – I do not develop _for_ IE6, but I do add support for it.

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