On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
Whoops, haven't had any caffeine yet this morning, left the two links off here. They're: [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/61083 and [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/61085 -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
