Do you plan to support IE 6 on your future projects?

Question

I\'m trying to make a pitch to my boss to drop support for IE 6. I find that a disproportionate amount of time is spent on trying to make the css IE 6 compatible and that co

Answer 1

No.

BUT it always depends on your target visitors. You might want to look at the analytics data of your previous projects to see which browsers your visitors are using. If a huge percentage of your target visitors are using IE6, then it's to you and their benefit that you make your sites IE6 compatible.

Some 15-20% of people who surf net still use IE6. If your company can live with that fact and have a way on convincing all of your site users to upgrade to IE8 or even use Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera, then that would be better.

Microsoft will stop support on IE6 by 2014! Hooray!

Answer 2

http://www.ie6death.com/

I don't consider IE6 anymore.

Answer 3

Rant

Yes, I do, because I use IE6 (edit: I use it in lieu of other IE's, I browse exclusively with firefox and opera, but sometimes I need IE). I'm a bit tired of people complaining about it; I mean welcome to the world of development.

And to be perfectly honest, a lot of people blame their own incompetency at developing in CSS and JavaScript, and lack of research into what they are seeing, and so on on IE, when they are at fault, for not following proper development processes.

There are some general bugs that need to be worked around, but in general the so-called 'problem' is very over-blown.

Simple Answer

Yes I do support it, and I find it pretty easy, using frameworks to help me (jQuery, reset css, etc, simple downgrading of functionality).

Answer 4

Support it? Yes. With full design? Never.

Progressive enhancement is the way to go, and IE6 is so far behind any curve that it's not worth putting all your time into pixel-perfect design. But you still want your content accessible to everyone.

Andy Clarke offers a brilliant analysis and solution here:

http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/universal_internet_explorer_6_css/

Answer 5

Recently we got permission NOT to support IE6. Mostly because of IE6NoMore campaign.

I believe that it makes website only better - many people knows what kind of harm IE6 does and admires such a step.

Answer 6

No. I would rather spend years implementing my own rendering engine and creating my own webbrowser than have to worry about IE 6 again.