Not to extend a pointless discussion, since Mark gave the official answer, but IIRC the OP said his app had a requirement to support IE6. Whether we agree or disagree on the priority of supporting IE6 generally the OP's question was asked in the context of his app's requirements.
Bill On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Joshua Miller wrote: > 30% of 1 country isn't enough in the grand scheme of what all web > users use. 30% out of China's total out of the whole browsing > community isn't much. And of those who still use "ie6" very few might > venture towards your site since most don't know any better to get > something better....If you're going to focus on the minority we might > as well focus on those still using firefox1 or ie2. You're presenting > a fact in the grand scheme of developing bootstrap isn't going to mean > a thing since it'll just be lots and lots of headaches and hacks that > are unnesscary.... > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:45 PM, tom12010 <[email protected]> wrote: >> Please read the OP's initial post: "...(almost 30% of all chinese >> people still use it [IE6] )..." >> That's NOT very very few people. >> Only an excessively biased geek with little or no real world >> experience could fail to realize that that 30% represents several >> million or billion people in CHINA, one of the world's most populous >> countrues. >> Please read forum messages more carefully. >> That said, Bootstrap probably won't work well in IE but one might >> could figure out how to *imitate* some of TWBS' appearance within IE6. >> >> On Mar 5, 12:54 pm, Joshua Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Plus there are very very few, and rare that you encounter a user still >>> using IE6. And it's not worth the hassle to support that rare few. > > > > -- > ~ Josh Miller > > A young guy learning to program and develop websites all while still in school
