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It's definitely a growing trend. Google doesn't seem to support IE6 in the new Gmail interface (the old interface and the HTML-only still work). If you're buil
by gcv 18y ago
It's definitely a growing trend. Google doesn't seem to support IE6 in the new Gmail interface (the old interface and the HTML-only still work).
If you're building a new app and don't have stringent compatibility requirements from your customers (a government contract for a site designed for people who might still run Win98 and use IE5), I don't see any reason to bother with IE6 compatibility anymore. The small number of extra customers you gain is unlikely to be worth the developer time.
- sharksandwich 18y agoMaybe others are blessed with a more favorable browser distribution than I am, but I certainly couldn't afford to drop IE6. About 23% of my site's visitors use it
- gcv 18y agoMaybe you can afford to offer IE6 users stripped down functionality? Even some of Microsoft's sites don't fully support IE6 anymore. There's a bunch of functionality disabled under IE6 in the MS map offering (Live Maps, or whatever it's called), for example.