Comments on: What if somebody ditched IE6?

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By: EngLee

EngLee — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:21:01 +0000

It would take years for everyone to adopt IE7. Just ditch your IE7 away until everyone is using Vista. I doubt the typical users will download it before Vista.

By: Oliver Zheng

Oliver Zheng — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:47:15 +0000

Elliot, if you really want to know, you could turn off the styles for IE6 for a week and see

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:29:34 +0000

I so wish I could ditch IE, but over half my visitors use it. >.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:00:32 +0000

Yes, I guess we did miss the target of your question. I think what would happen is that I’d get e-mail from everyone used to using IE wondering why I’d do such a thing, complaining, ranting angrily about how good web designers design for all platforms and browsers (meaning their own really). The cowards would just irritatedly avoid the site. The few brave would try switching to an alien browser to see what I had done, and the visionary one or two wouldn’t switch back.

I think if the site was interesting enough, it would shake things up. It’d be nice to get lots of e-mail (besides spam), even rants about why my site shouldn’t exclude IE. But in the end, I think most of the complacent IE users out there would just roll over and go back to that blissful, mangy, warm bed that is IE.

Or maybe I’m just a pessimist.

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:42:03 +0000

I’ve already ditched IE5. That 1% just isn’t worth it.

If I’m developing a serious site, there’s no way I’m going to not support IE6, though. However, there are times that I’ll not give IE certain features or effects just because it’s too much hassle and doesn’t effect the content in any way.

I am wondering though what would happen if somebody did develop a really cutting-edge site and not support IE6.