What is the best version of IE6?

[Alister]

It would be very difficult, if even possible at all, to write code
that 7/8 will handle and 6 won't.

Nonsense, if you write standards-compliant code according to the HTML
and CSS specifications, then IE7 and 8 will do a fair job of rendering
it properly, as will Firefox 2 and 3, but IE6 will probably break it no
matter whether you force it into quirks mode or not.

Alister

 

[Alister]

I have to wonder about the global numbers too. You have 60%, I have
zero %. Mine are small, mostly non-profit, geographically local sites
so the global numbers aren't important for most of them, but ... it'd
still be good to know. IMO the best thing to do is watch stats and
react accordingly.

I have seen the "global" figure mentioned in this thread, which seems to
agree with my own figure of 60% derived from stats, but those sites
are not for public consumption, they are local government intranets of
one sort or another, and certainly here in the UK, local government are
very slow to modernise. (We still have clients running SQL 5 on NT servers).
I would have expected the global figure to be far lower now, and on the
public facing sites we have this is in fact the case - One
internationally accessed site has 49% IE6, 35% IE7 and 6.5% Firefox.

Alister

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

rarely, anything that
governments or
business's provide
can be considered
as accurate.

the "truth" is valuable,
powerful and sometimes
ugly.

so it is kept under lock
and key.

instead, what the public
gets are over statements,
under statements and
dis information in order
to control of the masses
or herds.

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[Alister]

rarely, anything that
governments or
business's provide
can be considered
as accurate.

the "truth" is valuable,
powerful and sometimes
ugly.

so it is kept under lock
and key.

instead, what the public
gets are over statements,
under statements and
dis information in order
to control of the masses
or herds.

What are you on about?

Alister

 

[Daave]

Hmmm! There's a lot of difference between 16% and 66.1%

Nate was not referencing 66.1%. He was referencing 17.0%. Had you
clicked on his link, you would have seen that.

 

[Daave]

What are you on about?

Don't waste your time with that fool.

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

the conversation
at hand is about
stats, ie information,
data, etc....

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[db ´¯`·.. >]

why would anyone
listen to someone
who can't spell
DAVE...?


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[Anteaus]

More to the point, IE6 is horribly vulnerable to attack by malicious
websites. Either upgrade or switch to another browser if you want to avoid
malware.

 

[Nate Grossman]

Hmmm! There's a lot of difference between 16% and 66.1%

WTF!? I never mentioned 66.1%... only the 16%.

 

[Alister]

the conversation
at hand is about
stats, ie information,
data, etc....

Yebbut, not government data.

I was quoting browser stats from one of my sites - I am not a government
btw - ...and global stats mentioned were gathered by an independent
reviewer.


Alister

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

According to
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0, IE is
66.1%, FF is 22.48%, Safari is 8.21% and Chrome is 1.42% as of 03 May-09
1:44:13 AM UTC -4.

"...60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default
browser, according to Forrester Research."
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17290 (30 Apr-09)

I was off by about a point (the number is rapidly declining).

Was quoting from memory but found the site (first hit) I'd seen by
simply Googling "IE6 market share":

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Why did you selectively snip my post in your reply?

Unfortunately, neither site provides any info on the methodology used to
come up with those stats.

 

[PA Bear [MS-MVP]]

What are you smoking today?

 

[Nate Grossman]

Why did you selectively snip my post in your reply?

Nothing malicious, so unbunch yer undies. I hate un-edited quotes so
I often cut them so that only what I am replying to shows.

Unfortunately, neither site provides any info on the methodology used to
come up with those stats.

You can get all hot and bothered about that if you like. I couldn't
care less about the matter. Was merely interjecting what I had
recently seen about IE6.

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

ok, that's interesting.

do you have a link
to the site you mentioned?

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[db ´¯`·.. >]

I got a turkey on the
pit.

can you figure what
I nicknamed it?

: )

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[Alister]

ok, that's interesting.

do you have a link
to the site you mentioned?

The one I was looking at was:

http://upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm

or there's this (which may not be quite so independent)

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17290

Alister