Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: TheCSSOverlords

2009-01-24 Thread david
Erika Meyer wrote: James Leslie wrote: I'd like to hear from one of these IT people who have held back our entire industry, and wasted everyone's money for so much time now. Exactly how long are you going to leave it before migrating this c...@ppy IE6-only application you've forced on everyone?

Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: TheCSSOverlords

2009-01-23 Thread Erika Meyer
James Leslie wrote: I'd like to hear from one of these IT people who have held back our entire industry, and wasted everyone's money for so much time now. Exactly how long are you going to leave it before migrating this c...@ppy IE6-only application you've forced on everyone? Another month? A yea

Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: TheCSSOverlords

2009-01-23 Thread James Leslie
I'd like to hear from one of these IT people who have held back our entire industry, and wasted everyone's money for so much time now. Exactly how long are you going to leave it before migrating this c...@ppy IE6-only application you've forced on everyone? Another month? A year? A decade? Are you e

Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: TheCSSOverlords

2009-01-23 Thread Ingo Chao
But I did not say "let us drop support for IE6". And the page should of course stay viewable and usable. The market share of IE6 will not sink under 1% soon, and even if, 1% paying users are still a lot, so statistics about marketshare are currently pointless: you simply cannot ignore IE. When cli

Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: TheCSSOverlords

2009-01-23 Thread James Leslie
From: Ingo Chao When clients are comparing the similarity of user experience, they DO look at performance issues in IE too, I assume. So what does it costs to make the page look really equal? -

Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: TheCSSOverlords

2009-01-23 Thread James Leslie
I work with major blue-chip companies in the UK, and can say that well over 90% of our clients would not accept an unsupported IE6. IE6 currently has roughly 20% of the market share of the browser market, which is around 4-5 times as much as Safari and Opera combined, and only just shy of Firefox's