And that was the official answer I mentioned.

On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Joshua Miller wrote:

> Yea but he's asking for support on something that doesn't work with
> css3/html5 which bootstrap is based on. There is almost no way to even
> come close to getting a similar effect to what you see on modern
> browsers, in IE6 at all.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Bill Lazar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ~ Josh Miller
> 
> A young guy learning to program and develop websites all while still in school

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