IE6 Support - When to drop it? [closed]

Posted by Scott Brown on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Scott Brown
Published on 2011-02-18T16:31:34Z Indexed on 2011/02/18 23:34 UTC
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Should I bother supporting IE6?

I'm thinking about IE6 support and when to give up on it.

Do you have a percentage of total visitors figure in mind for when to drop support? Would you let a trend develop past this figure or are you just going take the first opportunity?

I've seen a 44% drop in IE6 visitors in the past 12 months from 23%(ish) of visitors down to 13%(ish). Even if it was 5% it still seems too early to drop support to me (it's still 1 in every 20 users).

What are people's thoughts on this?

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