On 14-Dec-2009, at 14:30, Christopher Woods wrote: > >> The need to support IE6 brings out that kind of reaction in me, too. >> Hopefully sometime next year all the internal users who bump >> up IE6's market share in our stats will have migrated to >> something made this century and we might just be able to >> start thinking about dropping it.... > > > There's no need to support IE6.
There is when your clients see the browser stats and decide that it’s at a significant enough level that you need to support it. Even moreso when _they_ use IE6 internally and so expect a grade-A experience. Corporate IT generally mumbles something about “security”, even though IE6 doesn’t get all of the fixes that IE 7 & 8 for flaws affecting all three. Mind you, IE 7 & 8 are still as slow as molasses (I can type faster than the browser can open a new tab? in 2009? are you kidding me?), but at least they consume considerably less effort to support and I can degrade a lot of visual things gracefully for them (box & text shadows, rounded corners, gradient backgrounds, etc., etc.) > I don't even consider IE6 backward > competibility when I design web sites, nor do I care if people don't like > that. Most web developers don’t have that luxury. M. -- mo mcroberts http://nevali.net iChat: [email protected] Jabber/GTalk: [email protected] Twitter: @nevali Run Leopard or Snow Leopard? Set Quick Look free with DropLook - http://labs.jazzio.com/DropLook/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
