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I decided not to support IE6 on a new project, but not because of some self-righteous desire to tell people what browser they should use. It's just a feature that I'm not implementing.I don't have an iPhone app in the works either, but it's not because I hate Apple. I'm prepared to lose some fraction of people who can't/won't use a better browser. It's just not worth the initial effort and continued maintenance. Especially considering that that fraction will only be getting smaller.

> It may be a surprise but we have most issues with Opera (Don't worry, I have spoken to both Opera users and they said it's fine for them to use Firefox sometimes:).

You can't have your cake and eat it too. So really, it's completely immature to say that and then go on to say:

> It's not our job to tell the customers which browser to use

That only applies when it's IE6? At least Opera has a steady market share, whereas IE6 is losing it at a rapid pace.

IE6 still has more market share than Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Conqueror combined...as measured amongst the population most likely to use alternative browsers. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

An extremely valid, if unpopular point.

Leave IE6 Alone