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by zbuc 5119 days ago
...how many users are you seeing on IE 5? IE 6, even? It sounds like a waste of time.
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The objective of testing on older browsers is to break feature testing logic.

For example, Opera 6 has no DOM Core implementation. Ergo, I use it to test code that uses the DOM Core to observe graceful degradation. This enables the code to be "future-proof", or compatible with past, present and future browsers.