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Re:37signals to Drop IE6 Support by dzohrob on Thursday July 03, 2008 @12:41PM (#235328)
Many sources [1] show that IE6 still has more global usage than IE7. Though I'm sure 37signals' userbase is not represented well by global data, turning away users of perhaps the most popular version of the most popular browser is an interesting move.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

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Re:37signals to Drop IE6 Support by mikeryan on Thursday July 03, 2008 @01:22PM (#235378)
Where did you get that from?

I clicked through the links on that page and the most recent month had this:

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2008/April/browser.php

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Re:37signals to Drop IE6 Support by Xichekolas on Thursday July 03, 2008 @02:46PM (#235483)
What is really amusing about those stats is the 77 visitors still using IE 3. I don't even have a 12 year old computer that still functions, let alone a 12 year old browser.
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Re:37signals to Drop IE6 Support by thwarted on Friday July 04, 2008 @05:17PM (#236566)
No, 77 is the age of the IE3 users.
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Re:37signals to Drop IE6 Support by dzohrob on Thursday July 03, 2008 @05:19PM (#235680)
FWIW, the first one I clicked on was this:

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-05-31

Not that it's the best source of data, but.

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