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[Justin Dearing]

On 7/27/08, John Campbell <jcampbell1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  As a side note, is anyone thinking about abandoning IE6 testing?  My
>  numbers on IE6 market share show it is around 20%. (my sites are US
>  based and tend to be "consumer" focused).  Apple has dropped support
>  for IE6 on their new me.com site.  I feel like once IE6 drops to 10%,
>  it will no longer be worth supporting.

Well what are the firefox numbers? I think IE6 is still relevant for
e-commerce and 15 year old girl sites. No one runs windows update and
no one is buying vista. I would consider limiting support of IE6 at
this point, and maybe exclude IE6 from new features in your site.

>  How do most people even do IE 6 testing?  As far as I can tell, there
>  is no legal means to test IE6 on a mac or linux.  I was told that
>  microsoft has virtual PC images available for free, but that only
>  works on the Pro/Business editions of XP/Vista.  Microsoft should
>  release free copies of XP and Vista that only have a web browser and
>  don't allow other software to be installed.

The same way we tested Safari before it was released for windows. Also
your suggestion is totatly unfeasable for Microsoft. It would be hard
to limit what you can install on Windows.