Should we continue to support IE6 in our websites?

Read that and give me some thoughts on the subject....... I found it quite an epiphany...

I've already stopped supporting IE6 on most of my personal projects, especially where I have some degree of control over the browser that my users will be using, or in situations where I know my target audience won't be using it.

However, in a job setting, if my employer wants IE6 supported and I want to keep my job, then I guess I'm forced to support it. Thankfully my current job doesn't involve any web work

My hope is that once IE8 shows up on the scene, IE6 will become nothing more than a bad dream. Kinda like Windows ME.

The thing that sucks is dropping support for IE6 isn't like just missing some features of a newer browser, it can actually make a site look terrible to those visitors.

The problem is, some of us still have machines with Windows 2000 and IE7 isn't supported on it. I still have half dozen or more machines at work that I have no intention of spending the money to upgrade until they die and I replace them (one of my home computers even still has Win2K and IE6).

I always make it a point not to use hacks or workarounds, in general. I find it humorous how little people understand about how how all these things evolved over the past decade.

When I redid our site at work, I told my boss that I am not going to make this thing work on IE6 ... and I had a look at the stats of the previous site and saw that at least here, only 1% of people use IE6 that visit our site ... engineering companies around here are all on XP and IE7 at least ...