It depends on the type of site, for non-technical especially, it is not surprising to see as high as 50% of IE6 and 30-40% of IE7, with other browsers only taking 20-30%. This incidentally coincide with the OS with 80% XP, partly due to failure of Vista? Perhaps 8 out of 10 new Vista machines reverted back to XP and that somehow strengthen IE6 existence. More so on developing countries.<br>
<br>Technical and popular sites are seeing totally opposite stats, but with IE6 still at 20%, it is still the third if not second main browser.<br><br>Hopefully Win7 will wipe off XP, and getting rid of IE6 at the same time? We can only hope.<br>
<br><br clear="all">Cheers,<br>CK Ng<br><br>forDrupal Premium Themes (<a href="http://fordrupal.com">http://fordrupal.com</a>)<br>- we make drupal beautiful<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Brian Vuyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@brianvuyk.com">brian@brianvuyk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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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