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

[Darrel O'Pry]

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.

On Jun 18, 2009 10:32 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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*Brian Vuyk*
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