Whats With the IE6 Animosity?
If you are not a webmaster you’ll probably be wondering why IE6 is so universally hated. IE6 has an extremely buggy implementation of something called “CSS”, the technology that controls the appearance of a web page. If you create a website with a design any more complicated than a single column of plain text, following the proper CSS standards, your website will probably appear correct in every web browser (IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc) except IE6 and (to a lesser extent) IE7. This makes creating a new design for a website a big headache. Not only do you have to come up with a good design, after you figure it out, you’ll have to come up with ways of making IE6 display your site correctly, without breaking things for the other browsers. As a result, unless you use the standard design templates that come with web editors like Dreamweaver (which have pre-packaged designs with all the necessary workarounds integrated), you’ll have to learn things like how to use different CSS
