well said.
On Jul 17, 12:41 pm, Nathan Bubna <nbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No one suggested not supporting IE in general, and supporting IE6 is
> not at all a binary decision, as you begin to hint toward the end.
> There are plenty of ways to cleanly offer reduced functionality. It
> is quite professional for any web developer to do cost/benefit
> analysis on various levels of IE6 support, and the plain reality is
> that every passing week reduces the reasons to fully support IE6.
>
> And every feature not supported on IE6 does damage the usefulness of
> that browser to the end user, which does ultimately increase pressure
> on IT (either directly or indirectly) to either upgrade IE versions or
> even just add an additional browser for internet apps while keeping
> IE6 for intranet work. Even those stuck on Windows 2000 have other
> browser options besides IE6.
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Gilles<gil...@netxtra.net> wrote:
>
> > Stop supporting IE or even just IE6 would be very unprofessional, it's
> > not a question of balls, it's a question of professionalism. Not
> > supporting IE doesn't damage IE in any way, it's the end user that get
> > all the problems.
>
> > Some company keep using IE6 not always because their employees can't
> > upgrade themselves but because some corporate have intranet system
> > which are vital to theeir work and unfortunately depending on the age
> > of the system so will only work in IE6 and nowhere else.
>
> > Support of browser should be made cleverly and it all depends on the
> > targeted audience, the number of IE6 users or even just IE is much
> > bigger from 9 to 5 than any other time, simply because companies are
> > open then.
>
> > So if your website targeted visitor or companies and their employees
> > IE6 support is very high, if you are aiming for the genral public
> > support for IE7 is higher, also still need to make sure IE6 doesn't
> > look too rubbish for the computer illeterate who don't know how to
> > upgrade. If you do a website aiming at geek then it could be possible
> > to drop IE6 support all togerther I guess.
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