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This is such bs. Firefox outstripped IE6 a LONG TIME AGO. To back up my argument, we get hundreds of thousands of hits a day, spread around the world. IE6 gets

by geuis 17y ago

This is such bs. Firefox outstripped IE6 a LONG TIME AGO. To back up my argument, we get hundreds of thousands of hits a day, spread around the world. IE6 gets about 3% of our total traffic of about 20 million per month. Firefox(overall, mainly 3.5 and less than half of that 3.0) are at 33%. IE(overall) is about 48%.

bretthoerner 17y ago
... and what kind of site do you run? I think this means averaged over the web. If you're running anything remotely technical you have a very different userbase than, say, Yahoo!.
- abstractbill 17y ago
  Agreed. Just as another data point, justin.tv still gets a little over 8% of its traffic from IE6 users.
- andyking 17y ago
  Visitors yesterday to the website I edit (for a mainstream local radio station, so likely to be one of the least "techie" audiences out there): IE8: 28%; IE7: 27%; IE6: 19%; FF3.5: 16%; FF3: 7%; Others: 3%
  - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
    What's your demographic though? You can mention what station it is.
castis 17y ago
I work for a company that runs ecommerce stores for major companies. Unfortunately 80% of these companies still use IE6.
- alttab 17y ago
  I guarantee for all of my clients that it will look exactly the same, or damn similar (minus font rendering) in IE6 all the way up to the newest versions of Chrome. Once you sit there with IE6, IE8, FF, Safari, and Chrome for a while, you start to get niggles on what each browser will do. For my current client, I've only had to do one IE6 specific hack (fieldset background colors/images). That said, I'm not doing anything too fancy (but still use JQuery, Ajax, etc). Unless we are explicitly leveraging new browser technology, from a design standpoint it could be construed as 'whiny-developer-syndrome' for people who refuse to design for IE. After the initial "WTF" curve with your base css laid out, it's actually not too difficult.
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by geuis 17y ago

bretthoerner 17y ago

... and what kind of site do you run? I think this means averaged over the web. If you're running anything remotely technical you have a very different userbase than, say, Yahoo!.

abstractbill 17y ago
Agreed. Just as another data point, justin.tv still gets a little over 8% of its traffic from IE6 users.
andyking 17y ago
Visitors yesterday to the website I edit (for a mainstream local radio station, so likely to be one of the least "techie" audiences out there): IE8: 28%; IE7: 27%; IE6: 19%; FF3.5: 16%; FF3: 7%; Others: 3%
- pbhjpbhj 17y ago
  What's your demographic though? You can mention what station it is.

castis 17y ago

I work for a company that runs ecommerce stores for major companies. Unfortunately 80% of these companies still use IE6.

alttab 17y ago
I guarantee for all of my clients that it will look exactly the same, or damn similar (minus font rendering) in IE6 all the way up to the newest versions of Chrome. Once you sit there with IE6, IE8, FF, Safari, and Chrome for a while, you start to get niggles on what each browser will do. For my current client, I've only had to do one IE6 specific hack (fieldset background colors/images). That said, I'm not doing anything too fancy (but still use JQuery, Ajax, etc). Unless we are explicitly leveraging new browser technology, from a design standpoint it could be construed as 'whiny-developer-syndrome' for people who refuse to design for IE. After the initial "WTF" curve with your base css laid out, it's actually not too difficult.

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