IE 6 is Almost Dead, But Not Quite November 12, 2009

Posted by Todd Zeigler in Usability, Website review

Internet Explorer 6 is the bane of web developers existence.  The browser doesn’t support web standards that have become common the last few years, and making sites work in IE 6 adds significant time to the web development process.  Despite the release of IE 7 in 2005 and IE 8 in 2009, a full 10% of users still use IE 6.  In other words, it is still too big of a group to ignore.

The chart below shows a breakdown of the decline in IE 6 this year.  I take this trend line as good news, as IE 6 has lost 8% of market share so far this year.  Here’s hoping 2010 is the year IE 6 finally goes away for good.

browsers

Share

Trackbacks/Pings

Comments

  1. +2 Vote -1 Vote +1Bill - November 12th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    Firefox ‘most insecure browser’ -http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/44602-firefox-most-insecure-browser

  2. Vote -1 Vote +1Not holding my breath... - November 12th, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    Sadly, we have two major corporate clients that still have ie6 across their network as the “standard”… so while the numbers are dwindling, there still are lots of “worthwhile” clients using it… unfortunately.

  3. -1 Vote -1 Vote +1Todd Zeigler - November 12th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    @Not Holding My Breath – I’ve witnessed the same phenomenom. It is often big companies that are most likely to still be using IE 6.

  4. Vote -1 Vote +1Bradley - November 14th, 2009 at 9:25 am

    W3C’s statistics are not a reflection of general users; thy only counts vistors to their site, which is devoted to web developers, who are unlikely to be using IE6.

    If you want more accurate results try:
    http://gs.statcounter.com/ and
    http://marketshare.hitslink.co.....px?qprid=2

About this blog

The Bivings Report (TBR) is a source of news, insight, research, analysis and conversation on web-based communications and its increasingly powerful role in the economy, politics and society. TBR content is created, posted and managed by internet strategists, media/communications analysts, web developers, designers and programmers, all of whom are employees of The Bivings Group.



Email Subscription

Delivered by FeedBurner

Search Site


Archives


Most Popular


Authors


Tags