Is IE6 Dead Yet? It was being circled by vultures until Microsoft recently announced support for the browser would continue into 2014, the BBC reports. What does this mean for web developers and clients? (more…)
August 19, 2009
May 12, 2009
Is IE6 Dead Yet?
Floating around forums I’ve noticed this question still being asked a lot: “Do I still have to support IE6?” and often the the answer you see is that it represents such and such percent of web users, and that’s too many to ignore. The truth is, the number of IE6 users varies greatly from site to site. Some of my sites still have as much as 20% IE6 users, and others less than 1%. So, on some I ignore IE6 altogether, and others I try to accommodate it as much as possible without going to extreme lengths, while with a few I’m fully shackled to it. Unfortunately there’s no getting around the fact that IE6 still exists.