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- Bullitt
Anyone know of a way to test in IE6 and debugg the page ( like firebug). Downloaded IE Tester, but it does not have great control for changing styles on the fly like firebug.
How many of you guys are still humouring clients with going through the ball ache which is making IE6 work with your new sites still? I would have though by now its time to move on with browser compatability with this bad mother fucker.
- mydo0
in august it will be 10 years old.
i'm looking forward to putting in my contracts that we only support browsers made within a decade of launch.
- jadrian_uk0
Check the stats for May IE6 = 2.4%
http://www.w3schools.com/browser…- Would 2.4% be worth 2,4 hours of dev just for this BSjadrian_uk
- ukit0
IE6 is about as relevant as Netscape Navigator at this point
- seeessess0
I still build for IE6, not through choice, more clients requirements.
Not tried this, but http://www.microsoft.com/downloa…
- I found that these emulators cause problems in Windows and with current IE versions.spot13
- fadein110
Still need to work for ie6 as unfortunately its the big corporations who have been the slowest to update. Particuarly senior executives.
Not for much longer though as Google has dropped support as well.
- mydo0
in China it's still about 35%.
maybe our spammer is IE6 too?
- ernexbcn0
I have a VM in vmware fusion of Windows XP with 3 snapshots one with IE6, another with IE7 and one with IE8.
- animatedgif0
Funny how it's still causing such a fucking mess and there isn't some official way to test for it provided by MS. They just keep sweeping it under the carpet when hundreds of expensive CMS' written during the dot com boom using early versions of .net and ActiveX still cause lots of IT depts to keep the company on IE6 so they're not fired.
- honest0
Rejoice for our pain will soon be over...
- dMullins0
I've actually modified my web development contract recently to add an additional $1k development fee for IE6 bug fixes. It's only come up once in conversation for a project, and when it did, they immediately said they didn't care for IE6 fixes for another $1k. So then we moved forward, and never thought about IE6 again.
I don't mind doing a site for IE6 compatibility, but you're going to pay through the nose for it.
- oktalk0
Don't use w3schools for your stats -- it's unfortunate that people are still using it. Use this instead, it's a little bit more reliable:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#brows…- W3Schools stats are skewed because they are culled from developers'/designer... visits.dMullins
- fugged0
try using FirebugLite
http://getfirebug.com/firebuglit…
- D4W33D0
IE6... it's a joke...
- spot130
I use this: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/…
It's great, can test any version of IE down to 5.5.*seeing that IE6 only has 2.4% market share just now made my day :)
- I still have clients with (lazy) IT departments that install IE6 with XP on new machines. So frusterating.spot13
- fugged0
I know that parts of Citibank still use it, as I've had it as a requirement for an application. Kind of scary that a freakin' BANK is still using it...
- Daithi0
Same as dMullins above.
Add it as an extra item on the quote. In the past I've presented it as the same cost as creating mobile-ready pages and styles, which represent a growing part of traffic for any site. When given a choice between one and the other everyone goes for the mobile option.
Generally speaking, I'd have it so that a site will work in IE6 but without much consideration to appearance. Depends on the client & audience of course.