Web designers get a big ol’ smile on their face when big companies or networks on the web announce that they’re going to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6.

Reason being, for a web designer, it’s a whole heap of unnecessary tweaking to sites so they look decent while being viewed in this godforsaken piece of software.  Surprisingly high, the statistics show that there’s still, a larger than you’d think, portion of users still running this version of Microsoft’s browser but since 1. March,  Google and Youtube said they’d start phasing out support for it, numbers continue to diminish.

Now Facebook announced that their live chat won’t work with IE6, prompting more users who still rely on Explorasaurus to check their email, to make the switch to new modern browsers (or simply update IE to version 8).

For a long time it’s been the tradition for web designers to hack out a sub styling sheet to suit the old bugger (and its cousin version 7 for that matter) but after talking to many webbies, some have taking the stance to leave it in its current state and not compensate for ill behaviors, thus rendering the website, quite quirky and funny looking.

Wether that’s warranted or not, is up to the designer and the project at hand.  We here at Gasfabrik, leave the poor bastard out to fry here on Gasfabrik.com…

If you’re reading this using IE 7 or older, go ahead ad update post haste or try something new like Firefox, Google’s Chrome or even Opera.  These are modern browsers that’ll enrich your web experience beyond what you’ve experienced with Mr. Oldasaurus 6.