"H2P Inc is ahead of the pack on this issue," says Watkins. "Having dealt with IE6 as a developer has made me a better coder as browsers that allow sloppy code are just as bad as IE6. Hopefully one day big browsers will get on the same page in regards to standards."
His sentiment is right on. At H2P Inc, we do our best to educate our clients on cross-browser compatibility, without getting "too technical." This is just one of the challenges of the industry. Pros like Watkins ensure that clients are not only getting a pretty website, but an extremely polished site from a technical standpoint as well.
Unfortunately for the web community at large, it seems to be US versus Microsoft all the time. However, Microsoft is slowly losing it's dominance, which ultimately will lead to the adoption of web standards hopefully across all browsers.
Watkins wrote a PHP Script that detects IE 6.0 and courteously offers clients to upgrade while still being able to view the website. The IE6 Graceful Alert Advise can be found here.