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

[Chin Kiong, Ng]

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.

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.

Hopefully Win7 will wipe off XP, and getting rid of IE6 at the same time? We
can only hope.


Cheers,
CK Ng

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM, 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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