We develop web based systems for the the UK police. 70% of these systems ONLY have IE6. I'm all for leaving behind IE6, believe it - I hate it, but as our client base requires it & they will NOT update their systems for at least another 1-2 years.
Our IE6 Bootstrap for v2.0 is coming along quite well, check it out here: https://github.com/empowering-communities/Bootstrap-IE6 Sharry On Mar 7, 3:45 pm, Rick Lowes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 towww.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&qpcus... > > > 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) > > >>> Bloghttp://justaddwater.dk/
