You'll see back over the last week that I've launched a couple of new sites, lucky.ie and topcommentator.com. When getting the sites up and running I was looking at them in different browsers to make sure they looked ok. I still have IE6 installed on my machine, for whatever reason I don't know why!

photo credit: sporras

Anyway, I had a good look at both sites in IE6, topcommentator.com looks fine but lucky.ie is way of the mark, I wont bother a screenshot, it's best just to go and have a look yourself. I could try and address this but there's since been an IE7 and IE8 released, IE6 should really be made dormant at this stage. There is some code you can place in your website to give a warning to update if you're still running IE6 so I may look at installing that on lucky.ie in the future. Looking round at sites in different browsers it's hard to argue against the functional offered by Firefox but if you're looking for a real clean look it has to be Google Chrome for me. Google should buy Mozilla and tie up the browser market. They should also partner up with PC manufacturers and and try to get the new Chrome OS installed on new PCs. I'm sure they are doing this already and if they do this they could really tie up the PC/Web market. That might not be the best thing in the world for competition but that's what I'd be thinking about doing if I was Google.