Alan Trick wrote:
Ok, I see your point here, but I'm the web designer for a company.
Most of our customers probably wouldn't know what a 'browser' is and
think that the 'e' is the is only way to 'download the internet'. I
can't simply "forget" my customers browsers without alienating them
as well, because they have no clue what the issues are.
Giving users a reasonable time to upgrade to the latest-- and
hopefully best-- version of the browser of their choice, and then
simply "forgetting" to code for the older versions, is one way
we can push (a little) where it matters.
Once you know a site works well in the latest versions of Opera, Safari,
Gecko and so on-- and IE6-- and no one is shut out, then it is just a
question of going back and see if there's a version of any of these that
is less than a few months (or a reasonable timespan) older than the one
you have coded for. Maybe a small workaround is needed for one of those
'older' versions, but most likely not.
None of the older blue 'e' are within such a time frame, so their users
need a little hint that their more than 2 year old blue 'e' is in need
of an upgrade. If that happens to be a new blue 'e', so be it.
No one is suggesting you should "forget" IE6 (although we wouldn't mind
if we all could do just that ;-) ).
IE6 is the latest for those who wants to 'download the internet', so
it's about time they 'downloaded it'.
regards
Georg
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