It may be 20% but realistically, for most web sites, how many users come
from those other countries?  Like Martin said earlier, its rarely worth the
effort to add advanced features into ie6 sessions as you risk breaking too
much stuff in other, more significant browsers.

I look at one of my larger sites which pulls 100,000 uniques a week and less
than .5% are from anywhere outside North America or Europe (of course we
block nigeria, russia, ivory coast etc.)
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:06 AM, T.J. Crowder <t...@crowdersoftware.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > In the case of ie6, with less than 5% of all page views (and rapidly
> > declining), it is now a footnote so why support it at all?
> >
> > stats here:http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/ie6-below-5-percent/
>
> As is frequently the case, it's more complicated than that. :-)
> StatCounter may say less than 5% in the U.S., Europe, the UK, and
> such, but they still put it at 9.75% globally (and a whopping 20% in
> Asia). Net Applications gives us a higher global figure (which makes
> sense, they have more corporate customers than StatCounter and
> corporations are a big part of the IE6 longevity). More here:
> http://blog.niftysnippets.org/2010/10/ie6-undead-browser.html
>
> -- T.J. :-)
>
> On Nov 17, 2:07 pm, Phil Petree <phil.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There comes a time in every products life cycle when you must choose
> which
> > core products (e.g. browsers etc.) and platforms you will support.
> >
> > In the case of ie6, with less than 5% of all page views (and rapidly
> > declining), it is now a footnote so why support it at all?
> >
> > stats here:http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/ie6-below-5-percent/
> >
> > This be-all-to-all strategy simply doesn't work.  You can't possibly
> support
> > all versions of all browsers without causing a horrible and unpredictable
> > experience for users.
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Bertilo Wennergren <berti...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:01, petrob <petrob...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Why don't you put the evaluation part in a separate function within
> > > > the scope of handleVehiclesClick and call it with some delay (100ms)
> > > > to decide what and how many option elements  to select?
> >
> > > That is of course a common solution to such problems, and I use it
> > > myself a lot, but I always have a nagging worry in the back of my
> > > head: Is that really a clean and safe method?  I pick a delay time,
> > > e.g. 100ms, out of thin air and then test if it works ... for me, in
> > > my browsers, in my computer, today, here. But will that be so for
> > > every user everywhere? Perhaps those 100ms will not be enough for
> > > someone using an old computer with MSIE6, or on a computer with lots
> > > of malware that sucks all the resources, or for someone who is
> > > compiling the Linux kernel while browsing, or... So maybe 500ms, or
> > > 1000ms, or... How do we test? How do we make sure?
> >
> > > There must be a better way. Or not?
> >
> > > Nothing to do with Prototype or scriptaculous, I know, but still...
> >
> > > --
> > > Bertilo Wennergren
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