Hi everyone, For me the IE6 issue is to a degree self perpetuating. We all do our best to support IE6 and provide an experience which is as little degraded as possible, and in doing that very thing, we give IE6 users no reason to upgrade. If everyone started not to ignore ie6, but to give them a degraded experience, and advise the user what they are missing out on, perhaps these users would start have have more of a reason to upgrade.
Ed On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Foskett, Mike <mike.fosk...@uk.tesco.com>wrote: > Sorry Andy, > > > > Given the competitive nature that exists between the large UK retailers I > feel professionally uncomfortable releasing such data. > > That's why actual numbers were replaced with percentages. > > > > Mike > > > > *From:* li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] *On > Behalf Of *Andrew Stewart > *Sent:* 11 June 2010 13:16 > *To:* wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > *Subject:* Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS] > > > > Mike, > > > > Thanks for this, whilst the sites I manage are pretty low-traffic, I too > have been seeing IE6 traffic of about 10-15%. > > > > By mentioning "shoppers" I guess you are running an e-commerce site. I > would be very interested to know how your revenue is split across browsers. > It seems that IE6 users are either in a corporate system using an XP > standard operating environment or people using older computers who may be a > bit out-of-date when it comes to technology. Would it be reasonable to > assume that the second category probably don't spend much money online? - so > maybe the percentage of revenue gained from IE6 users may be much lower that > 10% ? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andy > > > > > > On 11 Jun 2010, at 21:32, Foskett, Mike wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Ref "Links for light reading" article: > http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/ie6-below-5-percent/ > > > > Which basically states IEv6 has dropped below the 5% threshold across USA > and Europe. > > > > I just took a peek at our own stats for May 2010. > > A very large set limited to UK online shoppers only. > > And I couldn't agree less with the article. > > > > Our figures are from such a large representation they cannot be readily > ignored. > > While I cannot print the actual numbers, the browser percentages should be > fine. > > I thought they may be of use to others working in the UK and of general use > worldwide. > > > > *Internet explorer only:* > > IEv8: 48.26% > > IEv7: 37.14% > > IEv6: 14.58% > > Other: 0.02% > > > > *In general:* > > IE: 66.12% > > Firefox: 16.25% > > Safari: 8.06% > > Chrome: 6.89% > > Others: 2.67% > > > > So IEv6 is still at 9.64% overall. Virtually double that stated by the > article. > > Sorry for the bad news but IEv6 is still too relevant to ignore. > > And by the way who actually said 5% is the "ignorable" threshold? > > I'd of thought more like 2-3% personally. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Mike Foskett > > http://websemantics.co.uk/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > This is a confidential email. Tesco may monitor and record all emails. The > views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not Tesco. > > Tesco Stores Limited > Company Number: 519500 > Registered in England > Registered Office: Tesco House, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire EN8 > 9SL > VAT Registration Number: GB 220 4302 31 > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
