It's important to note that global (or even regional) statistics can be irrelevant for many site managers as well -* what really matters is what YOUR users are using.*
Your primary users may be heavy IE6 users - if you service a lot of enterprise customers even in North America, you'll certainly run into this as they tend to be very slow to upgrade. Check your webstats - if 5, 10, 20% of your users are still on IE6, do you want to simply not service them? If you have competition at all, and/or can't afford to ignore these customers, you probably need to develop for IE6 - as much as we all probably dislike IE6, some simply have no choice in the matter. If you don't, then you're lucky and don't have to worry about this :) That being said, trying to retrofit Bootstrap to support IE6 and have it work in it's entirety is probably not possible/practical, and will be problematic to say the least as upgrades occur, unless there was significant effort put towards developing and keeping this compatibility in place (and even then it may still be a losing cause). What we have decided to do instead (because we do support IE6 users) is to pick certain aspects of the Bootstrap library and use those in various places on our site that are useful. Sometimes we need to adjust these for IE6, and of course this doesn't lend itself necessarily to taking advantage of upgrades (we don't fork the project), but it's likely the best we can do with it. Rick @ricklowes 2012/3/7 Jesper Rønn-Jensen <[email protected]> > Vinicius, please keep your personal opinions out of this thread. Even > though I agree that IE6 sucks, I am working on a website, where China is > important (critical!). > > Although you link to www.ie6countdown.com, that address does not show > exactly where it has its data from. I saw a reference to Net Applications, > but actually the homepage has NO INFO about browser versions. After a > while, i found it here and will just post a direct link: > > http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0 > > > This link shows the global IE6 usage to 6.87%. (apparently you need to be > logged in to see for China only). From ie6countdown.com i can see on the > graph that IE6 in china is at 23.8% for February 2012. > Whether you think this number is low (and that IE6 sucks), it is still > important for me, since I have to support China. > > BTW, the stats are way easier to get hold of at statcounter.com: > http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-201202-201202-bar > (shows 27.18%) > compare that to the global value of 1.48% > http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201202-201202-bar > > I think somebody else already mentioned, if China is not important, then > ignore IE6. To me thats the best advice, but unfortunately I have to > support China, and this is what this thread is all about. > > > Cheers! > > /Jesper Rønn-Jensen > > > > > > On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 2:59:04 PM UTC+1, Vinícius Moraes de Araújo > wrote: > >> Is something about 20% not 30% and 7% global users ie 6 sucks no one >> should support that >> >> http://www.ie6countdown.com/ >> >> Atenciosamente, >> >> Vinícius Moraes >> >> >> >> -- >>> >>> Jesper Rønn-Jensen >>> NineConsult >>> *Mobile: +45 2989 1822* (New number Feb. 1st) >>> >>> Blog http://justaddwater.dk/ >>> >>> >>> >>
