On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
"Google phases out support for IE6" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8488751.stm
It's only a small step, but it is one more step towards the end of IE6 and the nightmare of supporting it!
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IE6 really is holding everyone back. But at such a high market share (still!), it's still worth providing services to these users--dear lord lets not start using the "Optimized for IEx/NNy" banners from days gone by. We've recently dropped the IE5[1] and 5.5[2] stylesheets, since their combined market share is less than a percent. Of course we shouldn't bend over backwards to help IE6, but they can't be ignored, yet.
As has been stated in many places by many people: IE6's penetration remains mostly in corporate environments, where users don't have a choice in browsers and the company doesn't want risk breaking working web applications. The fact that Microsoft is supporting it for another 4 years--it should've been shelved already--doesn't improve matters either.
-Chad
Whoops, haven't had any caffeine yet this morning, left the two links off here. They're:
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/61083 and [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/61085
-Chad