Comments on: The Danger of Ignoring Web Standards (1) http://www.zeta.net/web-development/web_standards.html Zeta Digital Press and Media Centre Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:10:49 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Sarah http://www.zeta.net/web-development/web_standards.html/comment-page-1#comment-18071 Sarah Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:07:56 +0000 http://www.zeta.net/blog/?p=1116#comment-18071 As a long time developer I would love to be able to just drop support for IE6 and redirect the visitor to a great big page telling them they need a web 2.0 browser instead of a web 0.5 one. Until IE6 market share falls to an insignificant level most sponsors of a new build internet project are not going to reject IE6. The good news is that IE6 share is falling and has recently been overtaken by IE8. It is the last die hard 10% of users that will be hardest to shift and unless more companies like Google take the step of withdrawing support there is still no perceived need for the diehard IE6 user to go to the "effort" of upgrading even though that "effort" is minimal. Perhaps developers should take these users head on and start alerting users to upgrade on all sites that they personally run. Eventually the message may sink in. With this in mind I have just added the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-big-ie6-warning/ " rel="nofollow">shockingly-big-ie6-warning</a> plugin on my <a href="http://anigel.net" rel="nofollow">blog</a> As a long time developer I would love to be able to just drop support for IE6 and redirect the visitor to a great big page telling them they need a web 2.0 browser instead of a web 0.5 one.

Until IE6 market share falls to an insignificant level most sponsors of a new build internet project are not going to reject IE6.

The good news is that IE6 share is falling and has recently been overtaken by IE8.

It is the last die hard 10% of users that will be hardest to shift and unless more companies like Google take the step of withdrawing support there is still no perceived need for the diehard IE6 user to go to the “effort” of upgrading even though that “effort” is minimal.

Perhaps developers should take these users head on and start alerting users to upgrade on all sites that they personally run. Eventually the message may sink in.

With this in mind I have just added the shockingly-big-ie6-warning plugin on my blog

]]> By: Arif Uddin http://www.zeta.net/web-development/web_standards.html/comment-page-1#comment-17564 Arif Uddin Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:23:23 +0000 http://www.zeta.net/blog/?p=1116#comment-17564 Don't know when people will stop using IE6!!! Perhaps developer should stop giving support for IE6. I don't understand why people unaware of the other browsers like chrome, firefox or even safari. Don’t know when people will stop using IE6!!! Perhaps developer should stop giving support for IE6. I don’t understand why people unaware of the other browsers like chrome, firefox or even safari.

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