On Jan 11, 10:47 pm, mikewse <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is jQuery's long-term strategy for browser support - cut off > browsers after a certain number of years or when going below a certain > market share? > > [I'm asking because of the current trend (among some webdevs and also > library developers) advocating to remove IE6 support and force these > users to upgrade their browser.
IE 6 use is 3 times that of Safari (all versions) depending on whose statistics you believe. Why not drop support for Safari while you're at it? And Opera and Chrome? > I work with several clients that do > not want to "lead the way" in this respect, and need to support IE6 as > long as it has a fair usage share, which may be for several more > years.] That is a sensible decision - they should not care what browser their visitors are using any more than the colour shoes they might be wearing. If support for the quirks of a particular browser is already built into a library, and the library architecture efficiently implements capability and feature detection to work around them, why go to the effort of removing support? -- Rob
