j22cal Posted March 16, 2010 Report Posted March 16, 2010 Is developing for IE6 still necessary? Seems like some people have abandoned it. Reason being, it seems I spend more time hacking for IE6 than I would like, I am still not very good at it, and it has only 10% of the browser share and falling?? Quote
falkencreative Posted March 16, 2010 Report Posted March 16, 2010 It' s a personal preference thing -- you'll find people on both sides of the issue. I think it depends on the target audience. If your web stats on the site say it's an extremely small number, maybe it doesn't matter. However, if there is still a significant number that use IE6 and you're a business, I'd say it's important. I don't worry about IE6 being pixel perfect. If minor things don't work or IE6 lacks minor styles, I don't worry about it. However, I do make sure it's usable and there aren't any significant display issues. Quote
j22cal Posted March 16, 2010 Author Report Posted March 16, 2010 Well, here is the current site that I am working on. I have three fixed positioned elements on this site. It looks fine everywhere else, except in IE6 it's destroyed, any advice? http://www.blotchit.com I have a few IE6 hacks in the first part of the CSS, including making the fixed position elements, absolutely positioned. But to no avail... Quote
krillz Posted March 16, 2010 Report Posted March 16, 2010 (edited) You could put in an information header for the people still in IE6 informing them about the progress of IE ( like you are still with 6 when 8 is out), and provide a URL to the link at MS download for it. Inform them that IE6 has been discontinued and any new exploits found most likely will not get patched and put them at unwanted risks. In short, sniff if you got a IE6 surfer, inform, get them to upgrade. Edited March 16, 2010 by krillz Quote
PicnicTutorials Posted March 17, 2010 Report Posted March 17, 2010 You want ie6 position fixed expression? Quote
j22cal Posted March 17, 2010 Author Report Posted March 17, 2010 I think that is what I am going to do, put a php script in there that throws up a message and a link for the IE8 download page. There is no point in encouraging the use of a 9 year old browser... Quote
Wickham Posted March 17, 2010 Report Posted March 17, 2010 (edited) If you encourage people to upgrade IE6 to IE8, how do you know if their old computer has the performance to run IE8? For instance, I still have an old computer with Windows 98SE and IE6 for testing and I don't think IE8 will run on WIN 98SE. They might try IE8 and find it doesn't work properly, or crashes the computer. Just advise viewers in a div that only IE6 viewers can see that IE6 is out of date and leave it to them to decide what to do. Edited March 17, 2010 by Wickham Quote
administrator Posted March 17, 2010 Report Posted March 17, 2010 I still have an old computer with Windows 98SE and IE6 for testing and I don't think IE8 will run on WIN 98SE. Man, that's like a 12 year old machine! If your PC were a dog, it would be 84 years old. ... No wonder it's slow. Quote
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