On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/2/20 Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com:
I would be willing to bet the vast majority of IE6 users left are on corporate networks as mentioned above, and have little to no control over what browser they use. At my former job, XP and IE6 were the standard supported platforms, and they had given no indication of wishing to change this anytime soon.
If I'm reading this [1] right, they can't wait too long - Microsoft won't be supporting IE6 past July 2010. Using IE6 without security updates would be a very bad plan! Given the end of support isn't that far away (assuming they don't extend it), we should probably continue supporting it until then. Once Microsoft stop supporting it, I think it's completely reasonable for us to stop too.
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I know a lot of shops are skipping the Vista upgrade with 7 on the way. They might be willing to hang on to a slightly-outdated product that just works until they get the new OS rather than pushing an IE update so late in their OS cycle. That being said: I think the number of IE6 users will drop yet again when Windows 7 comes out. But this is all conjecture.
TBH: The 2010 date might not be a bad one to target for IE legacy support. When the company doesn't support it, we shouldn't bother either. At that point, people who are using IE6 are just too far behind the curve to be bothered with. If we kept this "must support it" mentality forever, we'd have never made it past <table> and <font>.
All browsers die eventually, it's our job to kill support around the same time. Not while there's still a good percentage using it (and 20% is a fair chunk), but rather when it's practically un-used anyway.
-Chad