Do you still care about ie6?

5% isn't enough? Say your site would be of interest to 1,000,000 potential customers world wide, 5% is 50,000. Are you so inundated with buyers that you can afford to reject 50,000 possible sales? Consider standing at the door to a brick and mortar store; now tell every twentieth person who wants to shop at your store that he's not allowed in because he wears the wrong style of shoes. Pure silliness.

There will come a day when we can ignore IE6, but it's not here yet.

cheers,

gary

 

I know no much webmasters in person, who has 1 mln. of actual clients worldvide.
Also if client is unable to understand differences of browser versions, then later you
may have pretenses for sites you maked. Just one real example: I had a client, who
desperately wanted to have Flash-based gallery for his website, despite my warning,

much of gallery's content will be badly indexed in search engines due to this. After it
was ready, he maked almost 1:1 descriptions (spam-like) for most of gallery's pics
and later was wondering: Wtf, where is my visitors? - and I had 3~4 working
gallery modules to offer. Well, he just wanted MSIE v6.0 compatibility.

As for MSIE v8.0, tried it when it was released firstime; tried it week ago after
installing Windows. Result the same: crashing with 5 open pages is still a feature.

 

Yes, when I am working on a project try to optimize and under IE 6, even if it is not among the requirements. Because many people in offices use IE 6.

 

I really hate IE but I still code for that browser even up to IE6 as many people still use it. Through the time I have been developing websites I was able to come up with techniques on dealing with IE so my websites look almost exactly the same across all of todays major browsers (stuff that don't work on IE like border-radius and text-shadow).

 

Being a web-designer, I realize how much people hate IE6, but nevertheless, our clients WILL use it, atleast for a decade more.
I ask my client "specifically" do you need IE6 support?
If he says "no" - I don't give a damn about how his sites gonna look in IE6. I do my job, get paid, move away

Personally I NEVER use IE6,i just dl Chrome/Firefox and way to go!

 

YES, we are still doing work in IE.6.