I was just cutting up a design, doing the usual motion of making a few different coloured background icons, as anyone who’s dealt with IE6 will have done. Then it occured to me, why not use PNGs? Javascript can (kind of) fix IE6’s lack of support for PNGs, and the website the icons will be used for requires Javascript. Come to think of it, I see lots of sites that require Javascript, yet don’t make use of PNGs. PNGs are very badly understood. Event without Javascript, most people think of PNGs as a complete no when considering IE6, but why? It can still handle them, just not their alpha channels.. and even that can be fixed. With browsers becoming better and better at CSS and Javascript, is it not time we also moved on with image formats? I’m officially dropping any IE6 sacrifices. Why should everyone else suffer just because some people are too lazy (stupid?) to upgrade to IE7. If they don’t have IE7 then they obviously don’t care much for computers and the internet, which means they won’t mind if there’s a few white borders round some icons.

So my new motto for IE6 is.. if it works, it will do.