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Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

Clos — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:50:44 -0000

graceful degradation in IE6, leave a note to users of IE6 that they are currently outdated: http://www.bringdownie6.com/

Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

kik — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:00:26 -0000

I think that mark's solution is the good one. We, developpers, know that ie6 sux, and we feel angry about it. But non-developer people don't know about it.

Not supporting ie6 anymore is a good solution only if we inform the ie6 user on as much websites as possible that their browser is outdated. If they see the message every day in 6 month, nevermind which quota of your visitors use it.

Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

pam — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:03:31 -0000

Ugh - I wish I could stop hacking for IE6.... but I swear that ALL of my clients still use it and they are the first to let me know when something isnt right - even in the beta phases of a new development. I have to tell them view it in Firefox and then I'll hack for IE after they approve everything. Good for you for stopping the madness...

Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

Sean Berger — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:43:55 -0000

I still support it -- as much as I hate it, I don't want to abandon a good sum of my audience. Besides, the client/CEO is always going to open your site in IE5.5 :)

Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

spacecowboyian — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:19:12 -0000

Oh yeah.. 5th on the list.. IE5.. 88k visitors last month.. I'm not sure those people can actually see the site. I don't think even the ads comply with IE5

Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

spacecowboyian — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:16:53 -0000

Amen. I've had it.. unfortunately where I work (kansascity.com) IE6 is 2nd on the list. 25%.. 1.7 million visitors in October.

IE7 is first with 3 million...

I need a new job.

Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

3rdmartini — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:55:48 -0000

My stats say that out of 42% of my overall Internet Explorer users, about 10% use IE6. That's enough to convince me.

Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

Mark McDonnell — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:00:10 -0000

I'm building my new personal website and I intend to display a clear and unavoidable message for any IE6 users that they need to upgrade.

Although, I'm unlikely to get any IE6 users as my site will be aimed at web developers, but you never know.

Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

Dustin Jacobsen — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:52:55 -0000

I think the implementation depends on the percentage of your traffic that uses IE6. What do your stats have to say?

37signals had an interesting approach for Basecamp: http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/07/bas...

Re: No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

Rick — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:45:52 -0000

Dean Edwards' ie7 library for ie6

http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/