Howdy everyone,
Given the fact IE7 has been recently with us for a variety of months now, would you consider it to be a brave move, or plain foolish to drop help support for IE6 once you create a innovative website
My site shows that the majority still use IE6 but that is decreasing every day, and pretty soon IE7 will be the main browser. On the list of reasons I consult your opinion is that I’m redesigning my site. It’s XHTML as well as CSS, and can be standards compliant. Makes perfect in IE7, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Camino and any browser you can visualize. Except IE6.
It would take plenty of effort to get rid of it for IE6. By using IE6’s user trust gradually dwindling, is it worth it
Within your opinion, should webmasters still take the time and effort to make a site best with IE6 now it’s been superseded by IE7 Naturally, we don’t help to make sites still appropriate for IE3 anymore! So really the issue is, at what point should we cease supporting heritage browsers — which include IE6
Involved to hear a person’s thoughts
Support IE6 right up until its usage declines to 5% or lower in the market, and sometimes then, the site should still work in buying it. That number is definitely my opinion, however the idea stands that if your significant portion within your audience uses some sort of browser, then you’ll want to support that browser.
Actually, even stuff like Netscape or perhaps IE5 are however around. The problem comes from pure math. Whether or not only 0. 6% of site visitors use Netscape (for example) over a particular site, in the event that site obtains 100, 000 unique site visitors (something not that hard to obtain with good content), thats by now 600 visitors. So you never know…
I know will keep IE6 assist for about 5-10 a long time ahead. Right now the specific coding to support its worth not many bytes (although admittedly will not include the time frame pouring over hacks), so I’m not going to reject a fine portion of my visitors for a few saved bytes.
I just finished coding a website, totally forgetting in relation to IE6, so when I told my Dad to check out it… he ended up being like " this doesn’t happen work. "
I returned and totally re-coded everything just so stupid IE6 is able to use it.
I think I’m going to be designing for it for a couple of years still.
Foolish.
IE6 unfortunately is known for a big share from the market currently. If you building websites for clients it is just a must to always be comptable on most of broswer levels. You’re right the market is shrinking but it is still a large market.
Many thanks,