Alexandru Dinulescu wrote:
My opinion is that standards for old browsers should be dumped, and then force people to upgrade to anything newer.
If it is possible for them ... I can't upgrade to IE7 around here without spending a hunk of money to buy XP or Vista (newest version of Windows around here is W95).
I for one do not offer support for anything lower than ie6, and ie6 is paid support. Because it's a pain to create and make sure everything works on IE6 quircks, and i dislike the use of javascript inside css to get ie6 to behave properly. You can do that by simply deleting all your CC for your old sites, how the site renders with the main stylesheet is that's how it renders. I dont think IE6 will live to see 2010 to be honest, already it has around 20% of the marketshare, and will drop rapidly, and for those who do not upgrade their browsers, then that's their problem, a small sign when you enter the website will check for your browser version, if it's IE6 or below, FF2 or below, safari 2 or below or etc a big message will appear saying "Please upgrade your browser, otherwise this website may not work properly".
And my employer with its few thousand employees will say, "So sorry, you're not getting our business." IE6 is the corporate standard there for reasons worth a lot more than some outside site (we have mission-critical web-based applications that ONLY work in IE6).
Besides, once you get a site working in IE6, it's not like you're ever going to have to back to it to fix something broken by a change in IE6. ;-)
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