Comments on: The IE6 support equation: Is it worth supporting?

By: Glen Yoshioka

Glen Yoshioka — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:02:23 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if Microsoft updated IE and it just so happened to use webkit? Gosh that would be great. Seriously Microsoft should get out of the browser business.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 29 May 2010 06:10:10 +0000

“Period, end of discussion.”

Oh really? Not if I start it up again.

We leave out compatibility of IE6 unless our client needs it. If they do, we charge an extra percentage on top of the HTML/CSS build. Easy.

By: Marcos Passos : IE 6: Nem o próprio site da Microsoft é compatível

Marcos Passos : IE 6: Nem o próprio site da Microsoft é compatível — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:15:37 +0000

[...] me questionando: devo continuar perdendo tempo/dinheiro com o IE 6? Infelizmente, ainda acho que este péssimo browser detém uma fatia considerável dos [...]

By: Tijmen

Tijmen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:11:20 +0000

Your equation is silly…

If my customer goes to our website, it has to work. Period, end of discussion.

By: craig

craig — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:41:02 +0000

If commercial website, just abandon ie6 users, focus on developing advance feature for firefox users. We want microsoft IE out of business!

If other websites, just abandon ie6 users as well. LOL.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:51:26 +0000

I think we’ve reached the point where it’s fair to start charging extra for IE6 support, and even then you can easily contribute to the cause by sneaking in something like http://ie6update.com/

Unless like some other commenters have mentioned, you have a closed user group that is forced to use IE6, it’s a serious drain on resources to support the browser. As a web developer you bill your clients per hour. Would they rather you spent billable time on making the site better or making it look perfect on an obsolete browser?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:50:24 +0000

Oops. Sorry. My comment was really for Missy.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:47:54 +0000

Amy: You might want to check out your main nav in IE6.

By: Brian J King

Brian J King — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:41:17 +0000

I just say let IE6 die, the visitors that are using it are not likely to earn you any money anyway (clicking on PPC AdSense ads, purchasing e-commerce goods, etc.) Additionally the overall development time costs the customer that is paying the web developer more money to develop for IE6 compliance will be far greater then it’s what they would lose as @briancray clearly demonstrates above.

Additionally – this is why you can’t go to the store and buy parts for vintage cars at Wal-Mart, you need to go to a specialty shop.

Focus on the mainstream browsers, unless all your visitors are all only using IE6 I say don’t develop for it. That’s easy to find out through AWStats or Google Analytics, etc.

By: Brian Cray

Brian Cray — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:22:31 +0000

KiT: Depends on how often you change content. Bigger websites have many pages and some of which change frequently enough to warrant regular IE6 maintenance.