Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)
by ffitch on Friday October 01, 2021 @11:26PM
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To be fair, IE6 share was falling quickly on it’s own, and its sharp one-week drop coincided with IE8 launch. IE7 also saw drop that week, even though it didn’t have the deprecation message. Google’s banner probably made IE6 die a few months sooner, but that’s it.
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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)
by solarengineer on Friday October 01, 2021 @11:37PM
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For years after, various customers facing websites required IE6 support because analytics showed that there was significant IE 6 traffic. Various enterprises were slow to move off IE6 because various websites and products continued to support it!
I’d learned my lesson. When IE 7 was similarly entrenched, I’d start to provide separate estimates for IE 7 support, and explain to client-side business and IT folk that they could use this information to justify developing reduced functionality for IE7 users and for showing such users a banner urging them to upgrade to a newer browser.