How reliable are the statistics from w3schools? ( http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp). It is stated in this page http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp that IE6 users are about 0.1% of the total Internet users.
When I first began web development I always tried to make my websites compatible with every browser. But now I'm getting tired of that (particularly, tired of IE) and now I just care about the latest versions of Chrome and FF. At least this is true for personal projects. I understand that clients might require their products to be fully compatible with every browser. 2014-07-15 14:41 GMT-07:00 <andr...@itship.ch>: > > FWIW, in my case I fall back to polling every 10s in case websockets > > are not supported. However, as soon as IE9 penetration drops to an > > insignificant level I will stop with fallbacks. > > > > Make a user agent statistic from your users, or try to obtain data about > your target audience. > Rumour is, like half of Asia is still running on pirated WinXP using old > versions of IE (even IE6), so its surely good to have fallbacks around. > Of course, this is probably insignificant, but still interesting how > stubborn this old stuff sticks around. A point for trying to make software > well from the start, you never know how long it will haunt you or others > after release... > > Mobile support of websockets in the current client versions seems to be > pretty good: http://caniuse.com/websockets > Question is what version the user-base actually is using... > > --- > Just some random sources for my statements, not exactly well researched > stuff: > > > http://www.techinasia.com/windows-xp-now-dead-but-200-million-machines-in-china-still-using-it/ > > > http://www.troyhunt.com/2010/08/aye-pirates-be-reason-ie6-just-wont-die.html > > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
