Should we care about IE6 now?

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McInfo
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Re: Should we care about IE6 now?

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Benjamin wrote:The entire site should still be functional with JS disabled.
I wish Verizon agreed with that.
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Re: Should we care about IE6 now?

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I loath IE6 and think it's time has been up for a long time.
I had written IE6 off completely and then yesterday someone pointed out to me that the company blog was showing up completely blank on IE6.
::grumble grumble::
So now I guess I'm going to have to take IE6 into account.
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Re: Should we care about IE6 now?

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ornerybits wrote:I loath IE6 and think it's time has been up for a long time.
I had written IE6 off completely and then yesterday someone pointed out to me that the company blog was showing up completely blank on IE6.
::grumble grumble::
So now I guess I'm going to have to take IE6 into account.
Ouch, but theres a difference between poor client side implementations, and taking IE6 into account :lol:
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Re: Should we care about IE6 now?

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I don't care too much about IE6 anymore. However, most often when building a website I do check it quickly to see if there are critical problems.

A layout issue? Not important enough to spend too much time on unless the solution is very very easy.

A big design or functionality problem? Then I will fix it.

For example if a drop down menu or map doesn't function at all I will fix it. However, if content elements don't align well I'm not going to bother. Using a library like jQuery can make it a bit easier to support even IE6

It is a very old browser, but many users are stuck with it because of IT departments not wanting to upgrade. So many people in businesses and hospitals etc are still using the browser at work even though they will use the latest Firefox or Chrome at home.
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