IGNORE IE6 or NOT?

[alex-party]

Hello friends,

I'm developing a web service for media with Drag&Drop, Objects Resizing, Image Cropping functionality for massive traffic web site. I can't make it work under IE6 only because of it's damn DOM interpretation. IE7 is fine!

I'm coming to the point where I'll just IGNORE IE6 and RECCOMEND people to download Firefox or any other browser, if they want to use this service.

Am I going to loose many customers taking such decision.
How do you think, how soon IE6 will disappear from the global market?

Thanks,

[fuel]

It totally depends upon what kind of users are going to visit the page you are developing.
According to me IE6 will continue to be used for some more months (why dont you google it?), and maybe you can ask users to use firefox(many may have it already, like me, i use both IE6 and Firefox!) so if i am suppose to come across such a site, then what i do is simply copy-paste the url in Firefox.

[alex-party]

I've read many blogs about IE, everyone just hopes IE6 going down soon!
As to the visitors, they are both: "simple users" and "huge companies", like DELL or even same "Microsoft" partners! I would love to see Microsoft's smile on their face when they try to login and there's a message: "Sorry DUDE, we don't support IE6"!

Regular internet users, who according to statistics "98% of internet users has a brain of a monkey", so they might not even know what Firefox is! I will have to guide them through every step then....well....

Thanks fuel, if only every internet user had such understanding as you're, but it'd be naive to think so....

[leftybogs]

well i think you should not..coz some people use ie in browsing... if you have a site its important to test your site in different browser..

[alex-party]

All my web sites that I've created in past 4 years have clean xhtml and css, but this one is different, it's using A LOT of javascript: ~4000 lines of JS + prototype.js

I've already spent a week to make it work on all browsers, but I'm running out of patience with IE6. Well, I guess, there is nothing left, than to find another way!

P.S.: Have you noticed what Microsoft Welcome Screen tells you when you Install Windows XP? It's says something like: "We've been working hard to bring you this peace of crap".....now it's your turn to sweat !!!

Uhmmmmm..........just love them........

[harry_puta]

I suggest to re-program your stuff to comply with all working browsers

[Ar3d]

for me i think its a good idea! since IE6 are near to dispsapear and there a lots application are not aplicable for old version. instead to comply to old version why you dont expand your stuff to future posibilities..thanks

[toinkzzz]

i hope that IE will improve their loading time.. its to long to load websites..

[zeruel]

IE is really sensitive when it comes to few web designs and applications... Just like in web designs, i test my sites on different browsers and i experience more problems in IE in terms of table alignments, paddings, etc.. when in Firefox the pages load smoothly and quite fine...

I guess you should try that on different browsers for user compatibility. ^_^

[alex-party]

Yes, I agree with you. I usually develop web sites with Firefox and then test it in different browsers and apply patches and fixes This web service is working on ALL browsers, except IE6 because I can't manage to create a frame with 1px borders.

It should be absolutely positioned 4 DIV elements, that would create a 1px FRAME. Somehow IE6 Does not like "height:1px";

Here's an example, but it's not created with CSS, it's created dynamically with JS:
div.top { width:500px; height:1px; background:red; }
div.bottom { width:500px; height:1px; background:red; }
div.left { width:1px; height:500px; background:red; }
div.right { width:1px; height:500px; background:red; }