I’ve read about Digg’s plan to stop supporting the Internet Explorer version 6 web browser via TechCrunch. I just totally agree with the plan. I mean IE6 is just too antiquated. What’s an even more valid reason to dump it is that it’s such a security risk to continue using it.

I think that any experienced web developer would tell you what I’m talking about. Plus to developers it’s been a nightmare to try and support such a web browser that doesn’t even come close to following web standards. Everyone who understands what I’m talking about and has a blog should really start campaigning for these IE6 users to change their web browser by posting about it on their blog.

If you can’t upgrade your Internet Explorer to a new version because you’re using an old operating system. I suggest you do yourself a favor and get Mozilla’s Firefox instead.

I have just finished up on updating my Javamidlet.com web site. It’s been almost a year since I’ve made any changes to the site’s wordpress theme. The theme I use on Javamidlet was one of my early themes when I was still learning how to make them in Wordpress.

I’ve learned quite a few from the exercise and one of them was — it’s really quite a challenge to have a web site theme that works on majority of the web browsers — Firefox, IE7 and IE6. Working with Firefox (both for Linux and Windows) and MSIE 7 was easy but you’ve got to give credit to IE6 for being such a creation! It’s a good thing that less and less people are using IE6.

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