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"I'm not going to support IE 6"

I think you're missing his point...you should support IE6. We all know it sucks, but why risk alienating 20% of the Internet just because you don't want to take the time to make sure your site complies?

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If it takes twice the work.

Anyway I would just add a small notices on the top of the page saying something like you have an old browser, so this page may not render correctly.

I concur. Yesterday I spent an hour building a dropdown menu for a client that rendered correctly in Safari 2+, Firefox 2+ and Opera. Then I spent two-and-a-half more hours getting it to render correctly in IE6 and 7, rendering my page invalid in the process. Ick.

Yesterday I spent 10 minutes implementing the 'Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns' that works in all of those browsers. Why make more work for yourself if there are solutions already out there? :)

(I am of course assuming you mean a standard css navigational drop-down menu - you didn't specify.)

It may not be 20% of the internet, depending on who actually uses your site/app. Check your analytics.

Point of reference, (Mibbit)

  IE6: 5.7% IE7: 11% IE8:  1%
  FX1:  <1% FX2:  3% FX3: 63%
  SF:    2% OP:   5% CH:   6%

Really cool how Chrome has overtaken Safari, Opera, and IE6 (Admittedly it's a webapp, for which Chrome is well suited).

Also Firefox does a really great job of upgrading its users to the latest version.

At the moment I support IE6, but I'll probably stop soon. It's just too much extra work for not a lot of payoff.

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