We can discard Linux and Mac users as irrelevant to the question, as there was never a version 6 for either, and if you want to bring up the topic of IE 5, I need a baseball bat.
Vista never had IE 6. XP now forces an upgrade to IE 7 if the person is accepting updates. Win2k has no option for IE 7.
So your IE6 using market share consists of people using an unsupported by MS version of Windows, or people with an out-of-date, security weak version of XP.
So you have every right to downright ignore IE 6, and tell people to either upgrade their XP, including the update to IE 7, or to migrate to an alternative browser.
Opera is a lot of fun for the features it invents, but the biggest space it occupies is non-computer devices. How many people do you think are likely to use CommYou from their Wii? On the other hand, there may well be people trying to use it from their cell phones or Nintendo DS, so Opera is also one to test for, especially the way they run everything through a proxy for those mini-browser users.
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Date: 2008-03-25 10:21 pm (UTC)We can discard Linux and Mac users as irrelevant to the question, as there was never a version 6 for either, and if you want to bring up the topic of IE 5, I need a baseball bat.
Vista never had IE 6. XP now forces an upgrade to IE 7 if the person is accepting updates. Win2k has no option for IE 7.
So your IE6 using market share consists of people using an unsupported by MS version of Windows, or people with an out-of-date, security weak version of XP.
So you have every right to downright ignore IE 6, and tell people to either upgrade their XP, including the update to IE 7, or to migrate to an alternative browser.
Opera is a lot of fun for the features it invents, but the biggest space it occupies is non-computer devices. How many people do you think are likely to use CommYou from their Wii? On the other hand, there may well be people trying to use it from their cell phones or Nintendo DS, so Opera is also one to test for, especially the way they run everything through a proxy for those mini-browser users.