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

[Brian Vuyk]

On 06/18/2009 11:20 AM, Christoph Weber wrote:
> Safari is a standards-compliant browser (for the most part, anyway)
> and hence supporting it ought to be a non-issue. Furthermore, its v.3
> and v.4 are current and supported, regardless of statistics
> percentage.
>    
I never suggested Safari needed extra work to make a site work well with 
it. However, many of my clients explicitly specify that the site needs 
to be compliant with it, even at a 5% market share. IE6 is that much 
more important to them with a 15-25% market share.
> IE6 is not standards-compliant by any stretch of the imagination. It
> has been superseded by IE7 and IE8 which are incrementally better.
> These two facts change the whole equation: Support of IE6 is only
> driven by usage statistics, and there is the temptation to nudge
> remaining users by delivering a degraded experience.
>
> As to your original question: The decision whether to fully or
> partially support IE6 rests entirely with the site owner and project
> manager, and largely depends on the target audience. As a
> developer/designer we can only supply facts and arguments supporting a
> for/against decision.
>    
This totally misses my original question - at what point do you imagine 
the site owners / project managers will stop worrying about IE6?
> My approach is to make my sites first pass all (or most) standards
> validations and then worry about IE in its various incarnations.
>
> I despise with a passion sites coded to support specific, named
> browsers (with the exception of IE workarounds). We have standards for
> a reason.
>
> My 2 cts.
> Christoph
>
> 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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