One of my sites that attracts a few hundred visits each month from the non-technically astute shows IE-6 and IE-8 nearly neck and neck with IE 7 25% behind (unretouched top 5 cut-and paste from Piwik below)
Unfortunately non-techies are a valuable resource ... they tend to click ads and buy things so we have to humour their bad choices. Bruce Visits Internet Explorer 6.0Internet Explorer 6.0 259 Internet Explorer 8.0Internet Explorer 8.0 245 Internet Explorer 7.0Internet Explorer 7.0 185 Firefox 3.5Firefox 3.5 128 Firefox 3.0Firefox 3.0 78 On 9 February 2010 10:56, Simon J Welsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Where old versions is IE7? If your clients still want IE6 support for new > projects, I say they really need to move on unless they're targeting people > who don't upgrade, in which case, charge a premium for the extra > compatibility. > -- Bruce Clement When a co-worker said he didn't want his kids getting the H1N1 vaccine because it was too new and "they haven't tested it enough", I blurted out something like, "So you'd rather test a new and poorly understood virus on them instead?" I'm not entirely proud of fighting vague and irrational fear of the unknown by invoking vague and irrational fear of the unknown, but I think it did make an impression. Petréa Mitchell -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
