Sorry, when it comes to being prompted to upgrade to IE7, it is Microsoft doing the prompting, not anybody's site. I have several clients who are requesting IE6 compatibility and they are all in the US. This is a quote from one: "Over the last 60 days, nearly 5,000 unique visitors came to the site via IE6." This is for a community site whose users are all private consumers. The site is centered in Houston.
While it may take half a day to achieve IE6 compatibility for the average site, and getting rid of IE6 would be great, but if the work is factored in then well it's just another job... On Feb 28, 7:26 pm, Nick Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > The site displays brilliantly in IE6. Well done. > > Well that's good news and bad news... and unfortunately, this isn't my > work :) > > > I just got a new laptop with IE6 installed. I am often prompted to > > upgrade to IE7. I haven't yet because I'm using it for a testing > > ground for IE6. If this happens to me why isn't it happening to all > > IE6 users. > > Dunno. Maybe they are and they're just not telling you? I haven't > noticed that many sites to be honest - and I collect them. Sites that > prompt you to upgrade I mean. There's been a sharp upswing of late, > pushed in part by The Norwegians - my vague goal was to get IE6 off the > radar in the space of a year... > > ... but I got distracted, and I'm going through a phase at the moment > where I don't have to code for it anyway. > > The general vibe I get is that the bulk of the delay is coming either > from corporates who haven't budgeted on the not inconsiderable expense > of upgrading, or a million internet cafes in India/Turkey/Brazil etc who > run fairly old kit as a matter of economic necessity. > > The former can be moved along (I think) with telling their users that > IE6 is a security risk, and therefore the IT dept isn't doing their job > by not upgrading... I was even considering a name-and-shame "service" to > hurry this along. The latter is trickier - and far be it from me to tell > anyone poorer than me what to do in any case. I was thinking that maybe > Opera might be an alternative - being small and fast, but I don't know > for sure. > > Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
