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To be fair, IE6 share was falling quickly on it’s own, and its sharp one-week drop coincided with IE8 launch. IE7 also saw drop that week, even though it didn’t
by ffitch 5y ago
To be fair, IE6 share was falling quickly on it’s own, and its sharp one-week drop coincided with IE8 launch. IE7 also saw drop that week, even though it didn’t have the deprecation message. Google’s banner probably made IE6 die a few months sooner, but that’s it.
- solarengineer 5y agoFor years after, various customers facing websites required IE6 support because analytics showed that there was significant IE 6 traffic. Various enterprises were slow to move off IE6 because various websites and products continued to support it! I’d learned my lesson. When IE 7 was similarly entrenched, I’d start to provide separate estimates for IE 7 support, and explain to client-side business and IT folk that they could use this information to justify developing reduced functionality for IE7 users and for showing such users a banner urging them to upgrade to a newer browser.