According to w3schools, IE5 still accounts for a 3.5% market share internationally. Do any of you still design with IE5 or even use the browser to test your sites against? I haven't got big site statistics like w3schools, but the majority of mine tend to get around 0.01% from IE5. I'd love to see what browsers hit google.com
I keep an old Win95 box around specifically so that I can test my sites on IE5.5 from time to time. It isn't a primary browser I test against, but I do make periodic spot checks to see if any new issues have cropped up. The thing is that older versions of Windows can not upgrade to IE6 so I figure that I should at least provide basic support for IE5.5. With that said, I do not allow IE5.5 hold up a design feature just because IE5.5 doesn't support it. Instead I will use the "<!--[if IE 5]><![endif]-->" trick to feed IE5 a separate stylesheet that fixes IE5.5 display issues or will allow IE5 to render a page in a usable fashion that is different from other more modern browsers. This tactic has made it easy for me to resolve IE5.5 specific issues without impacting design considerations for modern browsers.
Also, check out these statistics: http://www.webreference.com/stats/browser.html 1.64% for IE 5.0. 4 people still using IE 3.0!
And that's the stats for webreference.com ! I'm sure stats for more generic sites would be different.
The Counter places IE5 usage at 4% for October 2006 (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/October/browser.php). I'm sure half of this is actually bots and automated processes spoofing IE5 (I find a lot of this with my bot traps).
Most of that traffic is probaly cloak programs spoofing browser signatures. I mean seriously - who uses IE 3? Homeless people in the African desert?
I stopped checking for IE5 a year or so ago. According to some of my sites stats, no one using IE5 has visited them, ever.
IE5 is dead already. If someone using IE5 have problems with your site, it's their problem, not yours. I've never supported IE5 in my designs. Why would i spend extra time tweaking my layout for a browser than hardly 1% of my visitors use?