Although every neuron in my brain is trying to fight me from writing this post, I realized that in our company, the websites we produce are not necessarily for computer literate people.

A huge chunk of our visitors still use IE6 and we need to provide them with a decent experience. We do have some plans to at least show some alert to these users telling them that their browser is outdated and they need to upgrade. A nice script to help us do that would be the one from http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/, pictured below:

If, like us, you still need to support IE6, you can use the incredible Spoon.net Browser Sandbox to launch IE6, or any other browser straight from their web page, after installing a small plugin. You can then just start any app right from the browser without needing to install it, one click and it just starts right up!

We find this tool invaluable to us as web developers.

Our Wordpress theme already complains about IE6 by default, so that’s a step in the right direction. I wouldn’t even have noticed that if it weren’t for Spoon.net.

Here’s a screenshot of Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows 7: