[mal183]

Do people use IE 6 anymore?

[Faevilangel]

Yes, people in large offices do, the companies are still using windows 2k on the servers and upgrading would be a huge cost to them, so the staff use ie6.
Also those not technical on the web still use it, if they have had their pc for a while or given to them it might have ie6. Last time I checked ie6 had roughly 6% of the market.

[mal183]

Interesting stuff, thanks Gareth..

[cibgraphics]

They actually have more like 15-20% still of the market share.

http://marketshare.h...re.aspx?qprid=2

[JonnyIrving]

Hopefully a lot less soon though. Everybody’s heard how Microsoft have been forced to offer a range of browsers to xp vista and 7 users in Europe. Well when the window pops up for the user to make the selection and they choose internet explorer (as most will) they will be prompted to update to IE8!

It's mainly the corporations who have put off updating and hopefully this will put a bit of pressure on them to sort their machines out!

[c69]

In Asia market share of IE6 is still very big, but in other regions we finally see it dying.

[jnicol]

According to stat owl it still has 11% market share, but it is dropping rapidly, down 5% in the past 6 months.

http://www.statowl.c...%5B%5D=netscape

(note: the figure shown in the pie chart is a 6 month average. The Feb 2010 figure is 10.99%)

I'm sure there will be a small percentage of users who refuse to upgrade - if they refused to upgrade to IE7, not doubt they will refuse to upgrade to IE8 too! These stubborn users presumably only upgrade their browser when they upgrade their operating system.

Currently IE6 is still in my testing suite, although I no longer strive for pixel perfection in IE6. Once its market share drops below 5% I feel it can be safely dropped from my testing suite altogether.

[mal183]

So the overall feedback is the usage of the browser is dropping.

[rjdejong]

Stopped supporting IE 6 a while back. Just give IE6 users a warning that their browser is out of date and that they should upgrade if possible.

[Tommy]

Where I work you have to provide a business case to upgrade from IE6 - a lot of hassle!

[mal183]

I think it's about time IE 6 was completely phased out, I mean 6% usage is too much for my liking.

[WebDizzy]

I still sometimes use. It is quite comfortable for many problems

[Mr Nourse]

Hi

Many large corporate companies still do - they are not allowed to even install flash!

B

[mrchristoph]

I have IE7, no javascript and no flash in my place of work (although i am only there for 1 more week!)

[FrancescoCiracì]

Well, I think it will never die until designer still support IE6. So, I stopped supporting IE6 a while ago, and I don't fix even if it is just "text-align: center;" stuff.

[cibgraphics]

FrancescoCiracì, on 18 April 2010 - 12:51 PM, said:

Well, I think it will never die until designer still support IE6. So, I stopped supporting IE6 a while ago, and I don't fix even if it is just "text-align: center;" stuff.

Thats actually a IE5.5 fix. IE6 supports margin: 0 auto just fine.

[neilp]

Even though the stats say that IE6 is still being used....you have to ask yourself how much of that percentage is US!...the web designer testing on IE6...?????

Makes you wonder?

I only test on IE6 depending on what the audience will be. If i know people are going to view my site in schools and hospitals for example, then i will test it on IE. And in most cases all you have to do is use conditional stylesheets to fix the difference.

[dash]

W3schools' Browser Statistics

[FrancescoCiracì]

cibgraphics, on 18 April 2010 - 04:32 PM, said:

Thats actually a IE5.5 fix. IE6 supports margin: 0 auto just fine.

Mmh, maybe you are right. IE's seems al the same to me :/
dash, but W3C stats are taken from the visits to their site, that are mainly from geeks. Maybe in other contexts IE6 is used more.

[jnicol]

dash, on 19 April 2010 - 01:30 PM, said:

W3schools' Browser Statistics

I wouldn't put too much faith in those stats, since they only measure visitors to the w3schools website:

"W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user."

A case in point is that the w3schools stats show Firefox having almost 50% market share, whereas most other sources put it at around 20%!

[MacCorpe]

I have found in the websites I develop that there are a few stragglers.... but I have started implementing features to prompt them to update browsers and give links to newer versions and different types

[Gibbs]

I have a few UK based websites in various industries that average at least a thousand unique visitors a month (according to Analytics). Looking at those it's in serious decline thank god. I'd say the average is 5-10%.

I do get calls from clients every now and again though down to things like the inline-block, z-index, onchange bugs etc. I take it less seriously with every project but if you have clean structured markup fixes shouldn't be too difficult if someone requests them

[James Riley]

Hi there,

Take a look at one of our discussion items on IE6 here:

http://www.explosive...ng-ungracefully

Cheers

James

[madesimplemedia]

jnicol, on 20 April 2010 - 12:30 AM, said:

I wouldn't put too much faith in those stats, since they only measure visitors to the w3schools website:

"W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user."

A case in point is that the w3schools stats show Firefox having almost 50% market share, whereas most other sources put it at around 20%!

Very true.

Really need to look at stats from various sources.

[Another Expat]

Several large-scale sites like YouTube have begun to withdraw support for IE6 and older browsers. A great trend to see but it still won't do much to fix the problem of corporations requiring IE6 for older apps.

[Reverie Design]

Another Expat, on 14 June 2010 - 03:15 PM, said:

Several large-scale sites like YouTube have begun to withdraw support for IE6 and older browsers. A great trend to see but it still won't do much to fix the problem of corporations requiring IE6 for older apps.

I cant wait until IE6 is totally wiped from all computers. I just love the message that this site gives out. http://ripie6.com/

[Frost Tear]

Reverie Design, on 15 June 2010 - 02:06 PM, said:

I cant wait until IE6 is totally wiped from all computers. I just love the message that this site gives out. http://ripie6.com/

Haha that's amazing .

At my work, it's all IE6. Luckily a few of us have spoken up about it and they've managed to get Firefox on all the computers now, which is better.

[KCooper]

I just design for more recent browsers, and do what I can near the project end using conditional stylesheets to try and tidy it up for IE6. I don't worry about it being "pixel perfect" though.

I also inform any client to upgrade to the latest version of firefox (wherever possible) and recently converted my girlfriend from IE6 to Firefox. She didn't even realise there was such a thing as an alternative, even with the youtube "we will soon be withdrawing support for your browser, try one of these alternatives" message flagging up each time she visited the site. Once the initial grumble about the different interface had passed, she realised how much better it was thats one small percentage less for the evil IE6

[bocaj]

KCooper, on 17 June 2010 - 01:11 AM, said:

less for the evil IE6

I think IE6 was just the troubled temperamental emo kid from a wealthy family.

Not that i'm sticking up for it, i love a good lynch mob

[KCooper]

bocaj, on 17 June 2010 - 01:23 AM, said:

I think IE6 was just the troubled temperamental emo kid from a wealthy family.

Not that i'm sticking up for it, i love a good lynch mob

Shame he never grew out of that "phase"... hes a bad 'un!

[ComfortablyNumb]

Just taken a look at one of my e-commerce sites and it's pretty scary reading:

Browser Visits
8 66.64%
7 23.03%
6 10.30%
5.5 0.01%
5.01 0.01%

and that was for the past month after about 40000 visits.

I say kill it stone dead!!!!

Numb

[dodi]

Unfortunately yes. 10% of users coming to our application are on IE6...

[designrichs15]

I still use IE6 to check the compatibility of the website into different browsers.