One of the growing topics ive noticed popping recently has been around phasing out IE6. This browser certainly takes the oscar award for being a terrible browser to build web applications around. The browser as its stands has many rendering bugs and lacks support for so many things that is simply a nightmare to work with. Im sure there are millions of developers out there that all feel the same.

The amount of time and money wasted in supporting this browser across the web is staggering. As a project manager this is not the best use of your resources as most of their time is spent on hacking layouts ensuring that everything looks right.

So is it right to kill off IE6 once and for all?

There was a time not so long ago when all web developers wanted to be using IE6. The goal back then was to kill off IE5. So now we are facing a similar history of behaviour to IE.

We yearn for the more modern versions, only to end up hating those same versions later on. This will not change with the death of IE6. Soon, it will be IE7 that we are trashing, and then IE8 will be the bane of our existence.
So while we celebrate the death of IE6, let us not forget that there will be a new thorn in our side to take its place in short order. IE7, you're next.