jQuery + IE6....?

Question

JavaScript

We are going to develop an online competition project: a small strategic browser game against the computer. We walk through the cells, wet the enemy units.
We are going to use JQuery as a basis for development.

We have little experience in JS. Tell me, please, does it make sense to declare support for IE6? Or is it better to explain to the customer that this will greatly complicate the development?

Answer 1

Get rid of IE6.
The main problem with this browser when developing games is that there is no event delegation in it (there are no crutches either). If initially written for IE6, then the result is a very unoptimized code that slows down already in all browsers.

Answer 2

It's better and easier to drop support for IE6. But if you have to support him, nothing terrible will happen. jQuery works tolerably well on it.

Answer 3

It probably depends on the complexity of the gameplay. If it's all about animated actions, smooth transitions, and other goodies in CSS3 and HTML5, then IE6 should be put aside.
If you abandon IE6 and look at canvas + box2d, then you can make an original masterpiece, and not another poke at the pictures that change.
Time is running out, it's time to throw off the heavy cart. I know that many companies use IE6 for work, but it's the same for work. Here WebGL is on its way, and behind it, look, various 3D engines. I'm already looking forward to the time when "browser games" will become similar to modern 3d games with complex engines and math calculations using hardware acceleration to act on matrices.

Answer 4

In IE6 animations will slow down the computer. Therefore, it can be done, but the cost of development may take 50-200% of other browsers. In general, it is strange that without experience in JS you are trying to promise something to the customer. Probably, you will do it with someone else's hands, based on the deadlines, and not on the task. You simply cannot build a work plan for yourself and the error in terms will be up to 3 times.

Answer 5

gag_fenix, I wouldn't even think about it. squirms due to 2-3% of browers.
here is the stat of the rutracker. there is even 0.3%
www.liveinternet.ru/stat/rutracker.org/browsers.html?period=month

Answer 6

jQuery + IE6? No, have not heard))