The thing is that making user aware they are using IE6 is important. You need to show something like: "You're browing experience will be improve if your where using the new version of IE!" On cool website you can be more brutal: http://nadirnasir.blogspot.com/2009/05/using-ie-6-message.html
Anyway, for real statistics their is http://www.thecounter.com/ and for why/how to drop ie6 support (From a .NET developer): http://ryanfarley.com/blog/archive/2008/08/18/why-i-am-no-longer-supporting-ie6.aspx Hope developers will be more active in removing this plague from the net! On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > > I should have metioned it is based in Australia and the majority of > visitors are Australian so it's possibly a similar situation here. > > The dealings I've had with our audience would suggest they don't fall > into the "high-tech" category so are probably likely just to use > whatever comes with their hardware which I think explains the high IE > usage. > > In any case, I definitely cannot afford to overlook IE6 yet...as nice > as it would be to dump support for it. :-) > > Vogella, I agree that because your website has a technical focus it is > more likely to attract a crowd interested in using a browser like > Firefox. > > It's probably time I caught up and listened to this podcast > too...probably a bit ironic that I'm commenting on a thread to do with > a podcast I haven't heard yet. :-) > > > -- JFrog Ltd 5 Habonim st., P.O.Box 8187 Netanya, Israel 42504. Tel: +972 9 8941444 Fax: +972 9 8659977 http://www.jfrog.org/ http://freddy33.blogspot.com/ http://nothingisinfinite.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
