[consulting] At what percentage do you think most new sites will stop supporting IE6?

[Patrick Goddard]

Recent article with good insight on ie6 usage:
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/06/state_of_the_br_1.html


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com> wrote:

>  I was just looking at statistics regarding browser usage.
>
> W3Schools shows IE6 usage at 14.5% last month:
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
> W3Counter shows IE6 at 24.84% last month:
> http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
>
> Regardless of what the true usage is, all these statistics indicate that
> it's usage is dropping, although not particularly fast.
>
> 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.
>
> Thoughts?
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