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For the first time in roughly a year, I saw what my sie looked like in IE6, and I was distraught. Not a single page renders the way it should, with some practically unusable. With IE8 on the horizon, is it worth it to remake my CSS to work with IE6?
As of right now, we're talking about roughly a third of our visitors are IE6, a third are IE7, and a third are Firefox. However, the IE6 statistic is decreasing by the month. While 30% is a rather significant audience to cut off, I'm just wondering whether you spend the extra time and effort to design for older versions of IE?
As of right now, we're talking about roughly a third of our visitors are IE6, a third are IE7, and a third are Firefox. However, the IE6 statistic is decreasing by the month. While 30% is a rather significant audience to cut off, I'm just wondering whether you spend the extra time and effort to design for older versions of IE?
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Incidentally, the problems that I have with IE6 are related to a known bug you can read about here:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/...oatIndent.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/...ed-margin.html
Lots of others here => http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...08&q=ie6+float
http://www.positioniseverything.net/...oatIndent.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/...ed-margin.html
Lots of others here => http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...08&q=ie6+float
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yeah i think no browser perfect,
but i think firefox id better right now
but i think firefox id better right now
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I've been reading up on it, and it turns out that IE6 has a LOT of CSS bugs that were corrected in IE7. Unfortunately, it still holds a 30% market share, so it looks like developers are being forced into supporting it.
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By looks of it you may need to support IE6 at least for another year...
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Yep... IE6 users don't like to upgrade, simple as that and we will need to keep supporting it. Since I am not a fanatic for valid style sheets (see no valid reason to be) I am thankful that IE6 display bugs are relatively simple to fix using underscore (importing extra stylesheets are just too much work to be worth the trouble IMO).
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Yes my first site some how did not work on ie5-6 and some times it would mess up with opera, and sea monkey/firefox but it work perfect on safari and ie7
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I work at a web development firm in Boston. All the designers and programmers around me are Firefox users. The firm I am at does a lot of "big" client projects. Anyway, one of the partners put a sign on the desk of the guy that sits next to me with an IE6 logo speaking "Please don't forget about me or the millions of people that use me."
We test our sites EXTENSIVELY in IE6, FireFox, IE7. The partners are ALWAYS bothering us about testing in alternate browsers. I big into Microsoft, so they are always joking with me: "When did you last test in Firefox? Does it work in Firefox?"
In short, you NEED to test in IE6!!!!!
We test our sites EXTENSIVELY in IE6, FireFox, IE7. The partners are ALWAYS bothering us about testing in alternate browsers. I big into Microsoft, so they are always joking with me: "When did you last test in Firefox? Does it work in Firefox?"
In short, you NEED to test in IE6!!!!!
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I think if we make website for clients, we must test it in different browser.
I usually use ie6 and firefox to test it until it work well in that 2 browser.
I usually use ie6 and firefox to test it until it work well in that 2 browser.
I think part of the problem with IE7 is that its such a drastic departure from what traditional IE6 users have been used to for such a long time (in terms of appearance etc). Now with IE8 being in testing, we should (hopefully 
) see lots more IE7 and IE8 users, or perhaps converts to Firefox.
Just a matter of time!
) see lots more IE7 and IE8 users, or perhaps converts to Firefox. Just a matter of time!
Last edited by andymonk; Mar 24th, 2008 at 9:37 am.
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