No one suggested not supporting IE in general, and supporting IE6 is not at all a binary decision, as you begin to hint toward the end. There are plenty of ways to cleanly offer reduced functionality. It is quite professional for any web developer to do cost/benefit analysis on various levels of IE6 support, and the plain reality is that every passing week reduces the reasons to fully support IE6.
And every feature not supported on IE6 does damage the usefulness of that browser to the end user, which does ultimately increase pressure on IT (either directly or indirectly) to either upgrade IE versions or even just add an additional browser for internet apps while keeping IE6 for intranet work. Even those stuck on Windows 2000 have other browser options besides IE6. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Gilles<gil...@netxtra.net> wrote: > > Stop supporting IE or even just IE6 would be very unprofessional, it's > not a question of balls, it's a question of professionalism. Not > supporting IE doesn't damage IE in any way, it's the end user that get > all the problems. > > Some company keep using IE6 not always because their employees can't > upgrade themselves but because some corporate have intranet system > which are vital to theeir work and unfortunately depending on the age > of the system so will only work in IE6 and nowhere else. > > Support of browser should be made cleverly and it all depends on the > targeted audience, the number of IE6 users or even just IE is much > bigger from 9 to 5 than any other time, simply because companies are > open then. > > So if your website targeted visitor or companies and their employees > IE6 support is very high, if you are aiming for the genral public > support for IE7 is higher, also still need to make sure IE6 doesn't > look too rubbish for the computer illeterate who don't know how to > upgrade. If you do a website aiming at geek then it could be possible > to drop IE6 support all togerther I guess. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
