Does anyone still use IE6 at home??

[nsmith1180]

I have developed a forum style for phpBB3 which I duely submitted to phpbb.com for distribution only to have it rejected based on a list of issues, all are with IE6.

If anyone uses IE6 for personal use, I will feel happier about this but given that my style related to gaming and not any work related subject, unless of course you work for a game developer/reviewer, I am quite fooked off about it.

On every site I work on, the analytics NEVER show IE6 users, so why should we have to make these things compliant with obsolite tech?

bh over, Merry Christmas.

[plg]

I think quite a lot of big corps are still on ie6... and public sector.

I agree though... obsolete...

Still 4.1% usage though:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explore...

[BliarOut]

IE6 only has roughly two years of life left

[nsmith1180]

Thats good to know, Ill republish it in 2 years!!

[Burgmeister]

I use IE6 at work, and yes i work for a big corp, Nationwide Building Society. Whats more frustrating is that my job pretty much involves surfing the internet all day and the amount of websites that don't work properly anymore is absurd.

[barky]

Should better prepare for the ie9 changes then, fewer and fewer sites will display right in ie6 ... can't really expect a browser 3 full generations behind to perform well .... easiest way round this ie6 only problem is using a portable browser running off a usb flash drive, no install required ... that's assuming such things are allowed on your company's systems ?

I found a plugin a while back that displays old browser versions in a sandbox, spoon.net ... quick glance at it now & I spot the internet exploder ones are currently offline, they must be adding ie9 to their systems?

[Pigeon]

(checks system log)
(finds the second hit in the log is from someone in Iran using IE6)

[barky]

BliarOut said:

IE6 only has roughly two years of life left

ie6 is supported until 2014 along with XP unless microsoft have changed their minds recently

[Famous Graham]

Pigeon said:

(checks system log)
(finds the second hit in the log is from someone in Iran using IE6)

Ironic that you of all people are defending the use of IE6, given your standards stance the other day

[Famous Graham]

barky said:

BliarOut said:

IE6 only has roughly two years of life left

ie6 is supported until 2014 along with XP unless microsoft have changed their minds recently

IIRC the 2 year thing is a projection based on upgrade trends, rather than MS support strategies.

[ClintonB]

Famous Graham said:

barky said:

BliarOut said:

IE6 only has roughly two years of life left

ie6 is supported until 2014 along with XP unless microsoft have changed their minds recently

IIRC the 2 year thing is a projection based on upgrade trends, rather than MS support strategies.

& money. Give that enough orgs are firmly in IE6 land, if they're big enough and happy to pay whatever cheque is put in front of them, IE6 lives for as long as is required.

[BliarOut]

They must have. How much longer must we code for MS's ste.

We just include an "upgrade your browser" code and leave them to it.

[//j17]

BliarOut said:

IE6 only has roughly two years of life left

Umm, no - unless you know more about corporate IT plans over the next two years than those of us that work in that sector.

Around one in six corporate desktops are estimated to still be running IE6, generally in order to support bespoke web-based applications that depend on IE6 and don't work on other browsers and/or because the corporate desktop build is still Windows XP.

This situation is changing but very slowly and slower than it was before the economic down-turn. Just try justifying re-writing a perfectly serviceable application or upgrading 20,000 desktops to Windows 7 (with associated upgrades, training costs, etc) to the board just so you aren't using IE6. Does it save money? No. Does it reduce costs? Maybe but by about 1% of the costs.

[Pigeon]

Famous Graham said:

Pigeon said:

(checks system log)
(finds the second hit in the log is from someone in Iran using IE6)

Ironic that you of all people are defending the use of IE6, given your standards stance the other day

I'm not defending it, just observing that it happens...

[arfur]

HMRC - 150k Desktops ... IE6 and Office 2000/2003
DWP - 75k Destops ... IE6 and Office 2003

Planned upgrade for both is late 2011 thru mid 2012

Thats just 2 Govt areas ... There are many more still on W2k and IE6 as well as XP and IE6. There are even ones (who are not connected to the internet on IE5)

My work laptop is still W2k and IE6 ... Nothing I can do about it. It's a 12 month old Lenovo and most of the features are unobtainable to me.

[mph1977]

some NHS trusts are still XP and IE 6 or 7

and IIRC a friend who works as an IT manager for local Uni was telling me they are jumping from XP and IIRC IE7 to Win7 ...

Edited by mph1977 on Sunday 26th December 21:40

[TonyToniTone]

DWP has 140,000 pc's

[The Highway Man]

DfT are still running XP and IE6, well the HA is and I dont know when we're upgrading.

[BliarOut]

//j17 said:

BliarOut said:

IE6 only has roughly two years of life left

Umm, no - unless you know more about corporate IT plans over the next two years than those of us that work in that sector.

Around one in six corporate desktops are estimated to still be running IE6, generally in order to support bespoke web-based applications that depend on IE6 and don't work on other browsers and/or because the corporate desktop build is still Windows XP.

This situation is changing but very slowly and slower than it was before the economic down-turn. Just try justifying re-writing a perfectly serviceable application or upgrading 20,000 desktops to Windows 7 (with associated upgrades, training costs, etc) to the board just so you aren't using IE6. Does it save money? No. Does it reduce costs? Maybe but by about 1% of the costs.

Why would you include a W7 upgrade cost in ditching IE6?

Perhaps that's why the public sector is so inefficient