My 2 cents,
Your approach towards IE6 should be dictated by your site's audience.
Watch your stats. If you have a lot of IE6 visitors, don't they deserve
a decent page? If they're potential customers, wouldn't you want them to
go through and make a transaction?
Think of the poor people using IE6. I've seen them come in the following
flavors:
60% - Persons trapped in old Win2k network without the ability to
install anything to their profile.
37% - Persons with an old computer with no knowledge of any alternative
~ /"I surf the web by clicking the E!"/
3% - Hermits who refuse to upgrade as they still love their IE6's simple
interface. I'm not kidding.
I still have Windows 2000 servers running web apps I made 10 years. Many
swear it was Microsoft's last good OS!
At any rate, at least 2 out of the three groups above are potential
customers. The stats for my own site show that 80% of my new customers
are using IE, with a good 30% of that group still using IE6. Yeah, it
kind of sucks, but web design is all about dealing with limitations,
isn't it?
Joseph R. B. Taylor
/Web Designer / Developer/
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Sites by Joe, LLC
/"Clean, Simple and Elegant Web Design"/
Phone: (609) 335-3076
Web: http://sitesbyjoe.com
Email: j...@sitesbyjoe.com
On 12/20/10 9:14 PM, Chad Kelly wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Erickson, Kevin (DOE)"
<kevin.erick...@doe.virginia.gov>
To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 7:51 AM
Subject: RE: [WSG] disallow IE6 to load the main style sheet
Yes. Thank you Felix! "best viewed" works much better. And then throw in
the fact that IE 6 was first release around 2001 and ask them if they
even care if they can see a site in a "best viewed" fashion. I am
thinking they are not. ;-) j/k.
All's good.
I know of some work places still useing Windows 2000.
Or rather, I have read that they have rolled back to it, after some
applications and the like wouldn't run on XP, which means that IE6 is
about the only thing they can run on Windows2000, unless they use
Firefox, or some other browser.
As I don't think IE7 and 8 run on Win2K.
I also know that a lot of workplaces are swiching to Vista though, so
with all these different versions of Windows floating around the
place, and with MS still not dropping official support for IE6 untill
2014 it is rather anoying.
All that said, I don't test in IE6 anymore and have not done so for a
year or so.
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