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Re:Progressive Internet Explorer by untog on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @11:10AM (#2812449)
> If corporations are too risk-averse to get rid of a clearly-broken tool, why should we help them out?

Because we want their business. There's a simple equation here- if you don't support IE6, you lose business from people that use it. For some web sites (such as mine, fortunately) IE6 and IE7 usage is so low that it's a rounding error. A lot of other sites are not so fortunate.

Re:Progressive Internet Explorer by paulirish on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @04:46PM (#2814020)
It's unfair to assert that not making things look the same (like using something e.g. CSS PIE) means we're not supporting these browsers.

Making your site work in IE6 is one thing... making the experience nice and fast is another... but it's impractical to make sure the pixels that you see in IE6 match the pixels you see in Chrome.

> There's a simple equation here- if you don't support IE6, you lose business from people that use it.

The equation is not so simple after all. And it means that you're responsible for delivering a good UX, not antiquated notions of identical rendering.