It isn't a case of designers meekly deferring to their clients - more a case of designers recognising that a large chunk of their audience (~15%) uses ie6 and has no choice in the matter. I strongly dislike ie6, but it isn't going anywhere.
Blogged about it here: http://philwhitehouse.blogspot.com/2009/08/ie6-isnt-going-anywhere.html I'm sure some would respond that IT departments should upgrade, and we can put pressure on them through the users, but the reality is that this isn't going to happen until the cost of upgrade (including upgrading all the old systems designed for ie6 i.e. very, very expensive) are outweighed by the cost of not upgrading (pretty low, actually). So it really doesn't make sense to alienate potential users or customers in the meantime. Phil On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Christopher Woods <chris...@infinitus.co.uk > wrote: > > > > There's no need to support IE6. I don't even consider IE6 backward > > > competibility when I design web sites, nor do I care if > > people don't > > > like that. > > > > You wouldn't win any points round here for that attitude, I'm afraid. > > There isn't anyone here who *wants* to be supporting IE6, I > > assure you... > > Of course :) However imho as long as designers continue to meekly defer to > clients and their requests to support completely obsolete browsers, the > longer it takes to design a good web site, the more costly it becomes and > the more complicated it is to maintain - it's really in nobody's best > interests. > > We've collectively been far too wet behind the ears about it for a long > time. The customer is not always right. (and this comes from someone who's > both a web designer and, wearing his other hat, a (frustrated) client of > 'professional' web designers!) > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- http://philwhitehouse.blogspot.com
