Should we continue to fully support IE6?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009Yes we should. I think we should fully support IE6 in perpetuity! I think it should be the highest rank of craftsmanship; a badge of honour: "YES, I even made it work in IE6!" *cue loud applause*
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Haha! That's BS.
Not as much BS as you would like, too many users are still depending on it and therefore using it ... there are sites that could do without supporting IE6 but others cannot .... simple is it not :)
I find I spend longer rewriting IE6 hack stylesheets than writing the original stylesheet. I've decided that on sites I design from now on I will make sure they "function" within IE6 but with the simplest of stylesheets rather than spending hours tweaking to pixel perfection a design that already works just fine in every other browser!
Andrew,
I have to agree that we need to continue support for IE6. It will be some years yet before large organisations absolve their desktop images with higher versions.
I found that IE8 and IE6 have similar strictness in their interpretation of HTML and JS, but am not sure if IE8 also requires the same hacks as for IE6.
So, in summary, we still need to support it if your client still runs it. Given that most organisations are still on XP because of the vista debacle, chances are most of them are still running IE6.