[ansonparker]

I look after an Australian e-commerce site. About 6.5% of our users are on IE6 (I assume they're mainly office-workers on shitty, out-dated PCs).

That is way too big a chunk of revenue to ignore in the name of ideals or standards or what-have-you.

But please, feel free to redirect any IE6 visitors to your blog to whatever the latest "IE6 is shit and you're an idiot" single serving site of the moment is.

I agree that IE6 is a turd, but have never found making my designs work in IE6 too much of a hassle. There has always been a positive ROI beyond just pleasing the spec-writers.

I think a lot of developers write overly complex, fragile mark-up with lots of nested floats and the like. Keep it simple and you'll realise IE6 support is generally just a few tweaks or at worst a conditional or two.

[mestudent]

I try to make my websites work in ie6 but with minimal work, I'll let IE6 users use it but it will be a degraded experience and most of my website for normal people actually haven't seen such high IE6 usage as 6.5%.

[wladimir]

I think that's pretty much the best solution. For old browsers in general, have a legacy HTML-only fallback site. This makes IE6 and Lynx users happy alike :-) It doesn't need to be pretty but it needs to be functional enough to do all the stuff your customers need to do.

[MisterT123]

Judging by http://www.ie6countdown.com/ IE6 is pretty popular in some parts of the world.

[madaxe]

You're lucky - one of our clients is an Australian e-tailer, with ~30% IE6 traffic - I'd just figured that Aus was really behind on the whole browser thing.

Anyhow - agreed entirely, we support IE6 whenever theres >1% of visitors using it, as it's all potential revenue. That said, we have noted that IE6 users tend to spend less, so... stupid and cheap. Still, net win, though.