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If you are developing a site for someone who wants IE 6 support

by Lloyd Buchinski
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I thought this was an excellent article from Smashing Magazine.

“But The Client Wants IE 6 Support!” - Smashing Magazine

This was a very nice way of handling the situation.

I’ve always presented options for browser support to my client. They want pixel perfection in IE 7? It will cost them more. They want IE 6 support? It will cost double. I explain to them that this is because I will have to do double as much work for this browser. I’ve never had a single client opt to pay more to fully support older browsers. If it doesn’t come free, you’d be surprised at how many don’t care about it as much as you think. But even if they do, at least I will have enough motivation to do it without hating them, my job, browser makers and the universe. It’s fairer for everyone, including me.
#developing #site #support
  • Profile picture of the author Dimian
    cool read. do you think IE will ever die off? its so inferior in so many ways
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    I'd personally charge 10 times for adding IE6 support.

    I've seen some amazing drain on time and resources from developers who have their HTML and app all working beautifully with every browser apart from IE6 and then have to put in all sorts of hacks and workarounds to get IE6 to come to the party.

    According to Internet Explorer 6 Countdown | Death to IE 6 | IE6 Countdown IE6 currently hold a 7.9% share of browser usage.
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    • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
      Just as a general rule of thumb I figure anyone who for whatever reasons is still using ie 6 I figure reasons typically fall in the economic category and so odds are these people can't afford t pay you. a I say economic reasons because way back when i used to do a lot of desktop support I did occasionally run into the person who was nursing along a n antique computer because they couldn't or wouldn't pay the money to join the 21st century. I'm talking people who are still running windows 98SE and repair on their computer meant digging up an old ISA card because their NIC card died. Yes believe it or not there are still those people out there running machines so old that the motherboard doesn't have any PCI slots And frankly I think it cost more to explain why their computer cost more to fix than a new computer cost. Honestly schooling these people on the state of the industry cost more in time than any value they are ever going to be as a customer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael71
    I dropped IE6 2 years ago, best move ever hehehe

    Since I work full time on business portals, job portals and other business sites for OUR company I do not need to fix for IE6 for any clients.

    When I had to it costs so much time ... incredible. IE6 = waste of time
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  • Profile picture of the author ussher
    IE6 never died, it changed its name to chrome and lives on. I'm beginning to hate chrome as much as IE6.

    At least with IE6 you could hope that the next version would fix some of the issues. Chrome just adds one more browser that does things its own way that now also need to be checked.

    Today for me its:
    $('html').scrollTop(70); //works in Firefox, but not in chrome
    $('body').scrollTop(70); //works in Chrome, but not in Firefox.

    Thought W3 was supposed be slowly eliminating the need for cross-browser checking and everything was just supposed to work. gggrrrrhh.
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  • Profile picture of the author EricDelano
    Why is IE 6 even being talked about? It doesn't matter. People who are still on internet 6 probably won't ever find your site ( or know how to type the address into the browser) anyways. My grandma even has a better version of IE. I'm to the point where I don't even really care about about IE 7 if it's something minor in the styling. Oh well. update your browser. I might start adding a little javascript that detects ie 7 and asks for an update. There's nothing wrong that. Adobe flash plugins do it all the time
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