Good thread @epicera a few of us were talking about this the other day on twitter – I agree with all your observations – one thing that does worry me is your statement:
Or just proof that IE users are either stuck on old versions becuase of corporate legalities or uninterested in ever ever ever accepting change….
If this is the case – and quite possibly – then we are only ever going to see the figure drop for IE6 if we get a large proportion of new internet users to help reduce the market share based on a total user base.
If that is the case – we could still be looking at years! Scary.
I totally agree Jonathan. The bottleneck really becomes if/when the corporate computers begin to break down or become too slow to perform mundane tasks… in which case it becomes cost effective for some of these corporations and government institutions (which account for LOTS of IE6 users) to begin updating to the more recent versions of IE… which isn’t Firefox, but it beats the heck out of writing endless underscore hacks for IE6 . I haven’t had a computer last me more than 3 years without making me itch for an upgrade… so I’d like to think that lots of these havens for IE6 won’t be too far behind. But yes, years might be an accurate assumption for IE6 to drop from 23% to 9.9%.
Just a note: Jeffrey’s mentioned a lot in the past that once IE6 officially drops below 10% that we as authors won’t need to sweat it so much anymore… I’m sure most authors will still want to support it on a limited basis, but it’ll be a significantly smaller headache to just clean up basic styling issues.
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