If you design standards compliant websites on a daily basis then you probably have first hand experience of just how ugly Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) can be. There have been many discussions in various blogs suggesting that it is our responsibility as web developers to stop supporting IE6 to encourage users to upgrade. As you can imagine this philosophy tends to be far more popular with designers and developers than it is with clients, many of who still use IE6 themselves.
As we move into 2009 I decided to do a little research, and looked at 3 of our most popular clients sites to see what the actual browser share was looking like. (more…)