Should I support IE6? [duplicate]

Answer 1

No. But someone is going to say you will lose customers if you don't.

It's time for IE6 to die, already. Those of you who are still using tube monitors and abacuses, please give us a break and come into the 21st century.

As Bobince points out in his comment above, it's unrealistic to put a coat of wax on a VW Beetle, and expect it to look more like a Porsche.

Answer 2

Probably not, but if your consumers consist of people that use old browsers, it might be a good idea.

Answer 3

• What is your product or service?

• What percentage of conversions come
  from that 5% of ie users?

• What percentage would come from those users if your site had better support for their
  browser?

If you answer those questions, you won't have to ask anybody else whether you should support IE6 for your site or not.

Answer 4

It's not that they're 5% of your user base, they're 5% of your IE user base. In otherwords, IE6 accounts for 5% of 30% of your traffic.

I would say no, because you'd be sacrificing too much time and features for too few people. That and big websites like youtube and firefox have dropped support already.

Answer 5

Businesses tend to keep IE6 on as legacy applications might only support IE6 so you tend to find they are in no hurry to roll out newer versions of IE as they would have to update in-house applications.

Answer 6

I wouldn't..Its not worth your time and effort for 5%.