10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead. Highlights include child and attribute selectors, 24bit PNGs and max-width and min-width. Simple pleasures, but I can hardly wait.
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10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead. Highlights include child and attribute selectors, 24bit PNGs and max-width and min-width. Simple pleasures, but I can hardly wait.
Where can I find a graph showing IE6 marketshare over the last few years?
I'm trying to get an idea for the trend but apparently most of these things make no distinction between versions of browsers.
Wikipedia has info suggesting it's dropped 6% from 24 to 18 percent in the last 6 months, which gives it 18 months if you extrapolate from those two points (which would, of course, be silly to do).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_6
dave - 15th April 2009 14:59 - #
Do the cool things anyway. Broken things die off when you insure their brokenness is noticed. Designers and developers that insist on making things work with old IE are keeping IE alive on life support. Pull the plug!
This list is really appealing but 24bit PNGs are not that sexy.
You can already use PNG8 with alpha transparency and get a nice fallback in IE (and of course a smaller filesize). See the "Internet Explorer and PNG transparency" paragraph on http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/11/04/imageopt-2/
Which will happen first? Flying cars or the death of IE6?
Chris, the people still using IE6 aren't doing so because they don't see a problem or because they like it better, picky people like that tend to express their dislike with ie by using other browsers. My experience is that the VAST majority are forced to use IE6 by their employer, or because they can't update because of some piece of legacy software.
Dave K - 15th April 2009 17:42 - #