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By: Keloran

Keloran — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:14:38 +0000

Personally I stop any development when looking to fix things for IE6

reasons against:
1. there machine has never been updated, IE7 is a mandatory update for XP

2. the amount of man hours going into fixing things for IE is not worth the amount of money someone who hasnt updated there machine in so long is willing to spend

3. more than likelly a machine that has never been updated is full of malware and being used by a remote-script kiddie, do you really want to risk letting that person enter credit card details in, and then blaming you when they get stolen

4. its a browser thats over 7 years old, most people dont drive cars that old, if Facebook (in top 10 most visited websites) and MS themselves dont support it why in hll should another company

reasons for:
1. that person spending 5$ might come back and spend 50$

2. it will work in ie6 and you can say it does

3. you can boast you spent 2k on making a 5$ sale

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:25:38 +0000

Hi Derrick, yeah I guess that sits a bit better as an analogy. I’ll have to find out where I got that from though as it’s not my analogy and everyone is assuming.
But thanks for leaving a comment and judging from your final comment I think you got the general feeling of the post as well.

By: Derrick Nelson

Derrick Nelson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:16:11 +0000

A corrected version of your mechanic analogy would be the mechanic telling you that he won’t work on your car because it would take him twice as long to fix as it would for any other car.

And given that more accurate situation, I don’t see how anyone can fault the mechanic; just like I don’t see how anyone can fault a developer for not supporting IE6.

Now, as far as “banning” IE6 users, that’s just childish. But don’t expect me to litter my code with special cases for them.