On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Google phases out support for IE6" > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8488751.stm > > It's only a small step, but it is one more step towards the end of IE6 > and the nightmare of supporting it! > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
IE6 really is holding everyone back. But at such a high market share (still!), it's still worth providing services to these users--dear lord lets not start using the "Optimized for IEx/NNy" banners from days gone by. We've recently dropped the IE5[1] and 5.5[2] stylesheets, since their combined market share is less than a percent. Of course we shouldn't bend over backwards to help IE6, but they can't be ignored, yet. As has been stated in many places by many people: IE6's penetration remains mostly in corporate environments, where users don't have a choice in browsers and the company doesn't want risk breaking working web applications. The fact that Microsoft is supporting it for another 4 years--it should've been shelved already--doesn't improve matters either. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
