> I have server access to a couple of thousand web sites, I haven't > calculated the stats precisely but the percentage must be around 20% > ...
Yes, but you are merging data from 1000+ different sites... lets say there are certain sites, that will definitely NOT be visited by IE6 users... would you still support it even of the % of that browser access is less than 2% to a given site? Besides, no one is talking about redirecting people away from your site but alerting them of a *better* way to surf the net... educate them.. show a pretty (pretty not as in cute or beatiful, but very simple) downgraded page... no more pnghack, no more dblmarginfloats, weird hacking that makes life s*ck, that makes us waste our time.. etc etc etc... You said time will tell and IE6 will die.. have patience... do you know since when we are dealing with such a beast? August 27, 2001!!! > People don't like change, they feel comfortable with the interface > they're used to. If you owned a 10 year old car would you be happy if > suddenly no parts were manufactured for it just because a new model > was released? Bad example.... That REALLY happens in the real world!!! ;-) Lets say.... Im pretty happy with my Pentium II.... I need to buy some SDRAM for it... what would happen? [thats a very extreme example as well, btw... ;-)] And tha'ts why we fail sometime with the IE6 user... the first reaction is always to promote the switch to Firefox, opera, whatever.... cmon!! if we tell them to at least upgrade their browsers... that's a big step ahead!
