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Last week, a reader emailed to ask why this website doesn’t support IE6. Well, technically, it does support IE6. I just serve it a plain stylesheet without any formatting. (Go ahead. Try it.) All the content on the site is still readable — it’s just plain text on a white background.

Ok, I know that’s a smart-ass answer. What they were really asking is why do I treat IE6 differently than other browsers? What gives me the confidence to ignore the browser with traditionally the largest market share? My browser stats:

• 42% Firefox
• 40% Safari
• 7% Mobile Safari
• 4% IE7 + IE8
• 4% Other (Camino, Opera, WebKit, Flock, OmniWeb)
• 2% IE6
• 1% NetNewsWire

I mean, seriously? Holy crap. I get more iPhone visitors than I do from Internet Explorer. Even a full 1% of my traffic comes from NetNewsWire.

That’s why I no longer support IE6.