As a designer, I don’t even know where to start when it comes to some of the grief that cross-browser compatibility issues has given me over the years. More specifically, IE6. Ugh. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about all the hacks and workarounds to just get images to line up and to have the design you envision just render the way it should. Other browsers have united to embrace web standards and help in the progression of web development, but IE6, most commonly used in business practices, keeps holding us back. Having a layout work beautifully in 3 or 4 browsers, only to have to backstep and butcher your code to make it work in IE6, is enough to break your spirit.

BringDownIE6.com is hoping to bring awareness to those who don’t see why it’s such a big deal. It costs time and money to deal with out-dated technology. Time and money that would be much more effective developing “Minority Report”-style computer interfaces. Yeah. That’s what I’m talking about… /drool

IE6 is the new Netscape 4. The hacks needed to support IE6 are increasingly viewed as excess freight. Like Netscape 4 in 2000, IE6 is perceived to be holding back the web. – Jeff Zeldman, standards guru