Nice idea but in reality I think we are still a while away from seeing the back of IE6, not to mention most users who are on IE6 have no idea that its called IE6 they just know it as the Internets. Putting a warning up about their browser will just annoy the user.

Yes I'd love to see the back of IE6 and 7 mind you but unfortunately this isn't the solution.

Fair comment Anon - but would'nt it be great if it did!!!

It's all about the stats. The ROI of hacking in multi-browser quirk workarounds don't make a lot of sense financially. It's interesting to note that MS hasn't pushed IE8 as a "Critical/Urgent" Windows upgrade as they did with IE7.

Looking at my Google Analytics recently the numbers of people using IE6 are around the 1-2% mark so I'm just not interested in spending a lot of time catering to that small an audience level.

I reckon the simplest solution is to have a standards(ish) compliant CSS based website for the good browsers and a lowest common denominator for PDA, IE6 FF2, Mozilla...etc..etc..

I didnt realise that IE6 useage had fallen so low, must have been a sharp enough decline in the last 12 months or so, a bit like the good old 800 X 600 resolution, it hung in there for ages and then suddenly fell away altogether.

If it's down to 1 or 2% then it's at the stage where it almost shouldnt be catered for.

Standards are a good thing to stick to alright, in fact we must make the push an get this site totally standards compliant, it was awhile ago but we added a few more bits and bobs and it now fails on a couple of points.

Something for the to do list!

Accoring to W3 Schools IE6 is still used by 17% of internet users - dropping by abou t0.1% a month.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

On no, 14 years of IE 6 left then, it's worse than we thought!! ;-)

lol ... well hopefully it's reach critical mass at some point and then drop off the radar. 800 X 600 hung in there for ages and then suddenly went way down.