On the 19th March I’m going to be attending “State of the Browser“. It’s an event hosted by the London Web Standards group for “web creators” to get the low down on up-and-coming features of the 4 modern browsers.

Tickets for the event are £10 and are still available on Eventbrite. You can follow tweets about the event via the hashtag #lwsbrowser

If one of Microsoft, Apple or Google was definitely going to reach “Buy & Large” (think Wall-e) style global domination – which would you rather?

There has been much talk in the web design and development community of late regarding the demise of Internet Explorer 6. Most web developers and designers have a special place in their hearts for their hatred of IE6, but the strength of their loathing varies from the occasional moaning, to the t-shirt wearing, to those running campaigns of contempt (see IE Death March, Bring Down IE 6 or Stop Living in the Past).

Personally, I strongly disagree with those who say web folk should stop supporting IE6 now, that we should use special stylesheets to make sites look particularly ugly in IE6, or more worryingly that scripts should be used to prevent sites from working in IE6 at all. It is the job of a web developer to support all major browsers (of which IE6 is still one) and punishing unwitting users is not the solution. It is Microsoft’s job to cease support of this ancient and incapable technology not ours.