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I see a lot of posts like yours on a lot of web development forums, especially on hacker news. "Gotta support ie6, it still has some market share" they always s
by windsurfer 18y ago
I see a lot of posts like yours on a lot of web development forums, especially on hacker news. "Gotta support ie6, it still has some market share" they always say. But who is running this legacy browser? What kind of person is it? Well it's probably either: A) the office worker stuck in a legacy-IT job, or B) someone who doesn't really know better, and just uses their computer to check their email, maybe.
If you consider this, for the majority of sites, we are already IE6 free. Yes, you could develop 2 versions of the same app, but wouldn't your time be better spent either improving your more functional version of your app, or maybe creating an entirely new app with your free time?
- briansmith 18y agoA lot of people only surf the web when at work. If you want to sell to those people then your website has to work on their work computer.
- warfangle 18y agoWe've been collecting data on visitors for one of the sites I work on, and it's about 20% IE6 still. We haven't yet collated data for what our actual signed-in users typically use, though. Of course my time would be better spent on not dealing with IE6 irregularities. 80% of our time is spent on making sure 20% of our users can use the site ;)