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Reports of its death are, from my experience, greatly exaggerated. It's still fairly widely used in businesses; as they say "if it's not broke, don't fix it." (

Reports of its death are, from my experience, greatly exaggerated. It's still fairly widely used in businesses; as they say "if it's not broke, don't fix it." (Despite the fact that it is broken on many sites.) For anyone that wants to use a modern CSS framework that supports IE5.5+, check out Min (http://minfwk.com http://minfwk.com). Disclaimer: I made it.

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wslh 13y ago
Yes, my company precisely does work in running IE6 in newer operating systems such as Windows 7. A case study of why and how we helped Symantec in this area is here http://blog.nektra.com/main/2014/02/12/nektra-escalation-support-for-symantec-workspace-virtualization-swv/ http://blog.nektra.com/main/2014/02/12/nektra-escalation-sup...
mattmanser 13y ago
I know this is a bit pedantic but it's definitely not 'fairly widely' or 'quite a lot' or 'some', there's a tiny, tiny percentage of businesses using it. Our UK website, not aimed at tech savvy, had 0.13% IE6 over the last 2 months compared to 0.32% the year before and when I last looked a significant proportion of that is bots and scrapers pretending to be browsers anyway. Half our traffic comes during the business day (we actually see a significant switch from desktop to tablet/mobile at around 6). For all intents and purposes, certainly for consumer websites, it's dead. For those interested, our IE7 is at 1.72% (we stopped testing IE7 a couple of months ago as we don't have the resource and it was already converting badly any way).
- wslh 13y ago
  there's a tiny, tiny percentage of businesses using it. Not really. Probably many fortune 500 companies (I know several) continue to use IE6 and pay for virtualizing IE6. That's a significant amount of money in licenses and support. That's why companies such as VMware or Symantec have this feature in ThinApp and SWV.
  - danford 13y ago
    If you're virtualizing then you're probably using it for one specific purpose and not general use, so imo it might as well be dead if it's not being used for general tasks.
- xixixao 13y ago
  Does your traffic come primarily from the UK / Europe? I imagine the situation is much worse in the US.
  - mattmanser 13y ago
    Why would you imagine that? http://www.modern.ie/en-us/ie6countdown http://www.modern.ie/en-us/ie6countdown UK, 0.5%, is higher than the US, 0.2%.
digitalengineer 13y ago
Thank you. Bookmarked for sure.

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wslh 13y ago

Yes, my company precisely does work in running IE6 in newer operating systems such as Windows 7. A case study of why and how we helped Symantec in this area is here http://blog.nektra.com/main/2014/02/12/nektra-escalation-support-for-symantec-workspace-virtualization-swv/ http://blog.nektra.com/main/2014/02/12/nektra-escalation-sup...

mattmanser 13y ago

I know this is a bit pedantic but it's definitely not 'fairly widely' or 'quite a lot' or 'some', there's a tiny, tiny percentage of businesses using it. Our UK website, not aimed at tech savvy, had 0.13% IE6 over the last 2 months compared to 0.32% the year before and when I last looked a significant proportion of that is bots and scrapers pretending to be browsers anyway. Half our traffic comes during the business day (we actually see a significant switch from desktop to tablet/mobile at around 6). For all intents and purposes, certainly for consumer websites, it's dead. For those interested, our IE7 is at 1.72% (we stopped testing IE7 a couple of months ago as we don't have the resource and it was already converting badly any way).

wslh 13y ago
there's a tiny, tiny percentage of businesses using it. Not really. Probably many fortune 500 companies (I know several) continue to use IE6 and pay for virtualizing IE6. That's a significant amount of money in licenses and support. That's why companies such as VMware or Symantec have this feature in ThinApp and SWV.
- danford 13y ago
  If you're virtualizing then you're probably using it for one specific purpose and not general use, so imo it might as well be dead if it's not being used for general tasks.
xixixao 13y ago
Does your traffic come primarily from the UK / Europe? I imagine the situation is much worse in the US.
- mattmanser 13y ago
  Why would you imagine that? http://www.modern.ie/en-us/ie6countdown http://www.modern.ie/en-us/ie6countdown UK, 0.5%, is higher than the US, 0.2%.

digitalengineer 13y ago

Thank you. Bookmarked for sure.