Vbulletin 4.0 came out without IE6 support and they added it back on for vB4.0.1 as far too many forum owners stood up and complained. According to many of our statistics IE6 represents nearly 10% of our users *boggle* NO CLUE why that would be, but it is... I would suspect that if forums get 10% of their users from IE6 then so would most sites, including Google... if they do not care about 10% of their users, then I reckon it's time I started to SEO for YAHOO and BING (they still support IE6 right)... Then again, I suppose that the 10% will only be partially effected, as they can still likely 'search' ... and then there is the hope that maybe some of them will get around to upgrading (which I guess can be hard on an OLD box).
I used to have ie6 on one of my old boxes just for testing sites I was working on to make sure it would display decent in ie6. I finally gave up on it several month ago now. Some scripts I use have stopped developing for it anymore. To me it is very very slow loading some pages, where firefox, ie7 and ie8 would load the same page much faster. The lack of tabbed browsing was a real pain too.
it's a history for me. I have not using it for at least a year now..most of the time on IE8 and Firefox. But thinking back, it could be one of the worse browser I've ever used.
Not that I'd ever defend it (or any of its current descendants), but 1/2 our users use IE, and 1/3 of them use IE6 (so that's about 15% of the total). Not everyone updates their OS, and not everyone can update their OS or browser (think: "borrowed" serial numbers or hacked versions of Windoze). And a lot of people really wouldn't have a clue about needing to update. You can criticize their ignorance or stupidity, but they do have credit cards, so ignoring them is ignoring a sizable chunk of the market.
I couldn't watch Youtube videos in IE6. they maybe working on IE 9, but It's not fair. In my country some guys still using W98.