One way to convince management/clients to let IE6 go is to point to major websites that are dropping support for IE6, such as youtube: <http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/>
Surely, it would be devastating for the management/clients to not be able to catch youtube videos if they refuse to ugprade? :) In our company, we've also made the decision to drop IE6 from Jan 2010 onwards: <http://shwup.blogspot.com/2009/10/ie6-we-dont-like-you-no-more.html> It's easy for anyone to request for backward compatiblity. If it were free, why not support all browsers since Mosaic? Ok, that's taking it too far, but between Mosaic and supporting only IE8, for example, there's a sweet spot. So, it might help if you bring up the associated cost of backward compatibility. For us, we have found that we've spent an inordinate amount of effort fixing issues on IE6 (stats that we can pull up from our defect database), a browser with declining market share, with time that can be better spent on adding features to improve the site. ls On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Jim Drew <[email protected]> wrote: > Precisely. How much of the inability to shift off IE6 is caused by our own > refusal to tell clients "No. The world has moved on. I'm not going to let > you be saddled with what is now 5 year old tech for the *next* five years." > > I know, it really takes balls to risk not getting a contract because of > this, but if we wait for the clients themselves to ask to move… we finally > actually dropped support for Win2K less than a month ago. We did get rid of > IE5.5 a few years ago by dint of a vendor's script code erroring like crazy > on it. > > Of course, Jennifer was also referencing our internal organizations. I think > ours only officially supports IE6, Office 2003, Eudora 4, and so on. The > tech teams all have to self-admin to a large degree. > > -- Jim > Via my iPhone > > On Oct 30, 2009, at 9:08 AM, jennifer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Regarding IE6... One the core issues for us is that internally our company >> only recognizes and thus supports IE6. They don't consider it important >> enough to invest in supporting newer technology. Ironic, seeing as though we >> are an internet security company. So, though we all *know* IE6 stinks, until >> we can shift internally, we will never drop support. :( > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help -- Lo Sheng Email <[email protected]> * Skype <losheng> * Cell <+65.96.818.044> * @losheng Sent from Singapore ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
