At a guess because they're in same boat as us (a large school/sixth form), where analytics tell us at least 50% of all our web visitors are still visiting using IE6, and doing some cunning reasoning tells us that this is likely to be people with pirate copies of Windows who don't have legit access to updates, and have no reason to want to update (other than some websites pop up and inform them they're out of date). Whilst I share the same irritations as yourself with this, unfortunately the stats don't lie, and if your a public institution then you have to cater for all to best of abilities otherwise some muppet will claim you're being discriminatory towards them just because they choose not to upgrade, or (in cases of piracy etc limiting their options) can't afford to.
On Monday, 25 March 2013 12:35:23 UTC, tip2tail wrote: > > Can I just ask... Why in 2013 are a public body insisting on compatibility > with ie6? > > Surely better to restrict access to better browsers and versions and > advise people to upgrade much the same as Microsoft are doing themselves. > On 25 Mar 2013 12:09, "John Tuffnell" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> I have my website looking good in IE7 upwards, however, because the >> website is for a lcoal council, it needs to display properly in IE6. >> Ive found a couple of developers (for example >> http://ddouble.github.com/bsie/) who have come up with certain fixes for >> IE6, but I thought Id canvas opinion to see if there is a solution which >> has been accepted as the best solution. >> Thanks >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "twitter-bootstrap" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "twitter-bootstrap" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
