Responsible designers support 20% - 40% of their audience, yes.
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There is no set answer. On some of my sites there aren’t more than 1-2 users with IE 6 while some of my other sites have a 25% IE6 user base.
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Responsible designers support 20% - 40% of their audience, yes.
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There is no set answer. On some of my sites there aren’t more than 1-2 users with IE 6 while some of my other sites have a 25% IE6 user base.
#17 / Sep 23, 2008 8:09am
I’ve had 32,360 different computers with IE6 on my site in the last 6 weeks. That’s almost as much as the 38,303 Firefox computers. It blows my mind how popular IE7 is, with 110,319 computers in the last 6 weeks.
I didn’t really know how my site performed in IE6 until about a week ago. It’s important for me to have support for IE6. I use transparent PNGs, max-width, different things that make my site a nightmare in IE6.
I HATE IE6!!!!
Oh yes, and I have one of these too phantom 😊
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<link href="/styles_ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 6]>
<link href="/styles_noie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->#18 / Sep 23, 2008 8:11am
Oh and I’ll throw in that only 0.1% of IE users use IE5, 150 users out of 150,000 users. Thank God we don’t have to support IE5!
#19 / Sep 23, 2008 5:18pm
My actual answer is I only support it if the client/customer requests it and pays me the extra $$ required to make stuff work in ie6.