There are a variety of tools out there for you to use to browse the internet, known as web browsers. The major browsers are Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera, and each of these has a number of different versions. One of the biggest challenges we face as web designers is ensuring that a website looks right in all browsers. Often it’s not possible for a site to look exactly the same, but we try to make it as close as possible. Perhaps the biggest headache of them all is Internet Explorer 6 (and all it’s sub-versions). IE6 was first released back in 2001, which is a long time ago in internet years. Because of this, there are many modern techniques which are simply not supported by IE6, and even those that are supposed to be supported often don’t work well. Google has recently announced that it no longer supports IE6 because of security vulnerabilities. We are now following suit and no longer testing new sites in IE6 unless specifically requested to do so. This has been a tough decision to make, but will save a lot of development time. If you are still running IE6, we strongly suggest you upgrade your browser to IE8 (if you’re a big IE fan), Firefox 3.6 or Google Chrome

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