Comments on: The Slow Lingering Death of IE6

By: Silver Firefly

Silver Firefly — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:34:33 +0000

@AJWired – Good for you. *Thumbs up!

By: AJWired

AJWired — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:49:58 +0000

We made a decision to no longer design websites that are guaranteed to work on IE6. We install a code that prompts IE6 users that their browser is out of date and they should upgrade to a new version with a link an upgrade page. If a client wants to make sure that a site works on IE6, we will do it for an added cost. We may lose a few clients, but it is a decision we have made. So far most clients don’t have problem with it.

By: alexweber

alexweber — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:12:50 +0000

Ss a web developer I’ve grown to hate IE6 so much. More than a lot of things I thought I hated. Unfortunately though this article points out some very good reasons why we’ll have to live with IE6 for quite some time to come, regardless of IE8 ever being released.

ARGH WHY WON’T YOU DIE!!!!

By: Craig Buckler

Craig Buckler — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:45:25 +0000

@Jack Matier
It really depends on your site and it’s audience. If you’ve created a blog about Firefox, then you’re not likely to worry about IE users and they’re unlikely to worry about you.

However, if you’re a general online retailer – like Amazon or eBay – then you don’t want to lose 20-25% of your customers. It’s fine to charge extra for IE6 support, but few clients will understand or care about your development problems – that’s why they’re hiring you. In most cases, you’ll simply need to factor that cost in at the start.

By: Jack Matier

Jack Matier — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:40:40 +0000

Isn’t it simple?

Here we go in with the initial assumption that we’re going to markup our sites to 99%+ of our target audience. This happens to include IE6 in just about every case, and IE5 or 5.5 in some cases. With this in mind we breakdown the costs on an estimated hourly and allow it to be up for debate whether they want to pay an extra 20% to support an 8 year old browser. It’s their money.

PS. Never had to make a ‘pretty’ website for anything < IE5 but I’d think I’d charge a trauma fee.

By: Silver Firefly

Silver Firefly — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:03:45 +0000

I refuse to support IE 6 other than giving my pages a basic degraded structure. I’ll also use Browse Sad and similar services to persuade IE 6 users to upgrade.

By: tactics

tactics — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:16:41 +0000

You’ve left out the biggest reason of all people aren’t upgrading from IE6 to IE7 – they’re running unlicensed copies of Windows.

You can’t install IE7 unless you have SP2. You can’t install SP2 unless you have a legit copy of XP. I would estimate that around 20% of the copies of XP in use aren’t licensed. Coincidentally, that’s just about the same number of people who are still using IE6…

By: omnicity

omnicity — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:49:34 +0000

There seems to be an awful lot of people here who have never worked in a true corporate environment.
To the guy that was complaining about working with Win95 and IE, I just say rejoice! that was probably the best time to be a web dev.

As for: “IE6 was fast, stable, and the best browser available” I have to disagree – IE4 was the best version ever; it has been downhill ever since, and by the looks of it IE8 will continue the downward trend.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:48:07 +0000

I use FF since version 1.x, it is for me the best browser, because it runs faster and has a lot of plugins, like greasemonkey that let me modified some pages to do or look like a like :D.

On my blog and my other sites I have a permanetly banner to invite the users to install fire fox If his/her browser isn’t FF.

For all than want to use FF but they can’t install at work for some reason, visit portableapps.com and install it. It has FF and other great tool to stick it on you pen drive.

By: Silver Firefly

Silver Firefly — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:34:12 +0000

Someone has a say in the matter. Whether it’s a boss or the IT department, your Mom, or whoever. If we all either drop support for IE6 or charge extra for compatibility, every IE6 user will soon get the message when the Internet ‘breaks.’