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

[Ashraf Amayreh]

> The problem we have with IE6 is a lot more than CSS compatibility. It's
poor JS performance, PNG incompatibility, etc, etc. makes it hard to work
with. I
> know there are patches for everything but it's extra work and since
January we started to charge more for making sites IE6 compatible.

> Seeing how charts are doing, I'm pretty confident that at the end of the
year IE6 will stop being considered on about 50% of new projects.

I kind of doubt that. CSS compatibility is the biggest issue and I'm hoping
the reset.css will be the solution. JS performance is a new one for me, it
used to be JS incompatibilities but with JQuery that's no longer an issue.
PNG compatibility is again an issue, but in Drupal, with modules like pngfix
it is as simple as enabling the module and identifying the img tag's
wrapper's ID or CLASS.

I definitely despise ie6, but the points above are diminishing and I think
you've quite overrated them.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Ivan Soto <ivansotof at gmail.com> wrote:

> HI, (I'm new here)
>
> The problem we have with IE6 is a lot more than CSS compatibility. It's
> poor JS performance, PNG incompatibility, etc, etc. makes it hard to work
> with. I know there are patches for everything but it's extra work and since
> January we started to charge more for making sites IE6 compatible.
>
> Seeing how charts are doing, I'm pretty confident that at the end of the
> year IE6 will stop being considered on about 50% of new projects.
>
>
> Ivan Soto Fernandez
> Web Developer
> http://ivansotof.com
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Ashraf Amayreh <mistknight at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Has anyone come across reset.css files? I've only recently been acquainted
>> with the concept, but surprisingly enough, almost all new sites we coded
>> where we've used the reset.css have passed ie6 with no to little
>> modifications. Read this:
>>
>> http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
>>
>> Hope it helps.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Darrel O'Pry <darrel.opry at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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