And today, where tech blog and forum are full of CSS IE hacks and tricks which only take a newbie 2 minutes to understand how that work

So what could be the sack of making CSS framework ?

Personally, I hope your predictions for CSS tables and frameworks are true. Do you know how many PROFESSIONAL pages I’ve been to that I can’t even read because the pictures float over the text?

As for IE6. Ahem, yes, I’m still using it. I hate MS too much to upgrade yet one more time, and while I have downloaded Firefox I’ve been too lazy to force myself to get used to it. But MS IE is not nearly as much of a problem to my web cruising as is turning off Active X. Try navigating the web with Active X turned off, I dare you! (I have it set on notify, as turning it off made browsing impossible.) This very page wanted Active X for something. Whatever it was, it wasn’t necessary (for this reader’s purposes) as I was still able to read your page. I guess my mouseclicks just didn’t get counted.

Still, I like your list and we’ll see what the future holds. One could hope other developers are as insightful (and truthful) as you are.

@Shane, thanks for the good luck wishes!

@Ryan, yeh, if it continues on it’s current rate then it’s bound to be below 10% by the end of ’09. I don’t think anyone really understands Microsoft half of the time, they claim to be doing what’s best for us but as usual they’re only in it for the money and, of course, to retain their monopoly!

@Dean, regardless of how you feel about what percentage is acceptable I’m sure you’ll agree that IE6 users do not deserve the same level of interactiveness that other user’s (using newer browsers) might receive. I’m not talking about sacrificing usability here; I’m just saying that the negative side of progressive enhancement will hit them the hardest, and rightly so! These users will still be able to access and use what’s important, i.e. the content.

I see parallels with early Flash usage when it comes to overuse of slidey fadey effects – this type of ‘feature’ will always be overused, generally at the cost of functionality.

Presumably there has been a drop in Flash usage where developers use a javascript framework to get the same effect instead, especially for simple image transitions or some such.

I still don’t understand why Microsoft use their own rendering engine, why not use Gecko or Webkit, they can still built all their “security” features on top… so why go to the hassle of making something that will be so behind the times and 10x slower than everyone else, when there are free options out there?

I don’t get CSS tables either, seems we’ve gone full circle then, just replacing table tags with superfluous divs!

@Shane, I did have Stuart Little in mind, he is my only estimation of a mouse! 😀 I should’ve mentioned something about Uni, but that’s not really a “prediction” – plus I don’t want to jinx anything! I’ve got two upcoming interviews, one at Kent and one at Staffordshire, wish me luck!

I agree that jQuery will dominate JavaScript frameworks, it already seems to be the most prevalent. Interesting to note that the ease of creating sliding/fading panels will probably result in their overuse.

You didn’t mention that you’ll be heading off to university. I’d say that’s quite a big deal for you in 2009!