<p>I don't think it will be a percentage point that changes the support requirement. I think it will be a price point. I'd go about testing it by adding additional cost for each browser the project support with higher costs for deprecated or non-compliant browsers and see what the market will bear.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 18, 2009 10:32 AM, "Brian Vuyk" <<a href="mailto:brian@brianvuyk.com">brian@brianvuyk.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>
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I was just looking at statistics regarding browser usage. <br>
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W3Schools shows IE6 usage at 14.5% last month:
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp" target="_blank">http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp</a><br>
W3Counter shows IE6 at 24.84% last month:
<a href="http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php" target="_blank">http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php</a><br>
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Regardless of what the true usage is, all these statistics indicate
that it's usage is dropping, although not particularly fast.<br>
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At what percentage point do you think people will start to consider IE6
to be not worth supporting anymore? I know a lot of developers feel
that we are past that point already due to how obsolete IE6 is.
However, most clients I've dealt with insist that Safari be supported
with ~5% of the market share, and IE6 even more so.<br>
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Thoughts?<br><font color="#888888">
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