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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 U
by 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 agothere'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 agoIf 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 agoDoes your traffic come primarily from the UK / Europe? I imagine the situation is much worse in the US.
- mattmanser 13y agoWhy 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%.