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If you care about IE6 these days, and aren't selling to corporate users forced to use it, then you're doing something wrong. Also, you can just enable it when
by bumblebird 17y ago
If you care about IE6 these days, and aren't selling to corporate users forced to use it, then you're doing something wrong.
Also, you can just enable it when it's available, and fallback to comet etc when it's not.
- robotron 17y agoWhile the numbers are falling, IE 6 users still account for a sizable percentage of the people that buy things from my site. Ignoring them would be "doing something wrong". Guess it just depends on what you're doing.
- bemmu 17y agoAlso in case you are doing something that spreads virally, not supporting IE6 can change the viral loop from increasing to decreasing (you could lose 5% of invites/feed messages/emails/whatever depending on app).
- IgorPartola 17y agoI think the main issue here is not IE6 but all the modern browsers (FF 3.5, Safari 4, IE8) that do not support this feature. Targeting Chrome users only is not that appealing.
- freetard 17y agoThe feature was added to webkit so both safari, chrome and other will get the feature and so is firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472529 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472529
- JulianMorrison 17y agoThis is HTML5, they will support it soon if not yet.
- bumblebird 17y agoThat's why you would use it where available, instead of targeting. if (browser.supportsWebSocket) useWebSocket(); else useComet();
- enjo 17y agoIt really depends. I recently did a bit of consulting work for a guy who has a large number of domains receiving primarily organic search traffic. Around 20% of the people hitting those (several million a month) are still using IE6.