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At this point, it matters not what happens to IE market share. It will not ever get lower than 20% and it will not ever get higher than 90% again. As long as
by zmimon 18y ago
At this point, it matters not what happens to IE market share. It will not ever get lower than 20% and it will not ever get higher than 90% again. As long as it stays in that range we can know with surety that a) all web sites will still have to be coded to work with IE
b) no web sites will be exclusively IE. Those days are over.
The only remaining question is how fast we can vanquish IE6 and thus rescue a small amount of sanity for web developers everywhere. The rest of the battle, in as much as it can be won, has been won.
- sounddust 18y agoAllow your site to gracefully degrade to a more simple version (for both mobile users and IE6) or just reject IE6 users altogether. I plan to drop IE6 support soon. From my experience, if someone loves your site, and you make them choose between upgrading their browser and using your site, about 90% will happily upgrade their browser (most of the remaining 10% can't upgrade, but you can't please/support everyone). I know from experience; I have forced this decision on my users several years ago for mac users (dropped support for IE5/mac and older versions of Safari) and had no complaints.
- zmimon 18y agoIndeed, this is very much what I already do. For all non-functional aspects, IE6 is not catered for. For example, transparent pngs are assumed supported. If you visit in IE6 you will see lots of blocky icons and images for rounded corners and such. Layout is roughly right, but no effort is made in getting it pixel perfect.
- dangoldin 18y agoThat may be a bit biased since I imagine Mac users would be more willing to stop using IE for another browser. A Windows user may not be as likely - especially since IE isn't the default browser on a Mac.
- mooism2 18y agoAnd on the Mac there was an alternative browser preinstalled.