Website optimization for IE6 - good or evil?

It is believed that any self-respecting HTML-coder should make sites that are correctly displayed, among other things, in Internet Explorer 6.0. As you know, a lot of problems during the layout are connected with “hacks” and various tricks that you have to think of in order for IE6 to correctly display your website.



On the other hand, nobody especially argues with the fact that among ordinary users it is necessary to popularize normal browsers (Opera, Firefox, IE8) in order to finally bury IE6 and forget it as a bad dream.



As a result, we have a paradox. If the user enters the page from under IE6, and it is correctly displayed, he has no reason to change his browser. And however much you tell him that the browser is outdated and in general, it does not want to be updated. Why - it still works. But if a significant number of sites he goes around and is buggy in every possible way, then he won't even have to explain anything - he will figure out the reasons and update the browser (or ask a friend).

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In connection with the above, the question is: maybe you do not need to optimize sites for IE6? Maybe from this - only harm? Maybe if you stop doing this, users will quickly switch to something more decent?



PS: I don’t specifically urge you to make websites that are crookedly displayed in IE6, and I don’t call for anything at all - I just want to discuss the sore point.