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I'm building a website and by far the most annoying crap part is making it so the design looks more or less the same between browsers. But I really want to give up on IE6....it's just too retarded regarding css. You think it would be limiting telling people just to upgrade if I detect they are using IE 6, or perhaps even 7. IE 9 is out now so I'm hoping this won't be a problem.

here's a snapshot : browsers used on our website

internet explorer: roughly 15 % and of these only 16% still use IE6

all my friends who also have architecture and design websites have similar statistics - firefox is the main browser.

now for a porn site or a site for a law firm there might be more IE users.
also..US based companies have more IE users.
in poland they still translate TCP/IP into sock puppetry.

best
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Great Thanks for that! I have to take a closer look at how things look in Safari.....

but the "official" stats still look slightly different...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_shar ... b_browsers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer

as i said..it highly depends on the business you run. i guess most of our visitors are industrial designers, graphics designers and students in these fields.

a graphic designer who still uses IE 6 should be shot..in the face

yes, you're right! i just wanted to add the information

And don't forget about http://www.browsershots.org
It really helped us a lot with browser compatibility, the last time we did the site.

I purposefully break IE6 compatibility out of principle.

dmeyer wrote:I purposefully break IE6 compatibility out of principle.

Maybe, when IE6 is detected, redirect to http://dearie6.com/

I'm on Windows XP but I have IE8 installed if for no other reason than security and compatibility -- I actually only use Chrome for browsing.

My attitude is anybody still running IE6 (or 7) as their main browser should not be connected to the internet anyway.

Best,
Jason.

more statistics...

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

Explorer ---> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp