Many have already abandoned IE6, it's time for IE7... When?

Sergey Predvoditelev2012-01-20 23:47:00

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Sergey Predvoditelev, 2012-01-20 23:47:00

According to LiveInternet statistics , the share of IE7 is rapidly falling and will soon be less than 3%.

When do you think it will be possible to safely abandon support for IE7?

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Vitaly Zheltyakov, 2012-01-21
@VitaZheltyakov

The problem with IE6 runs much deeper than it seems.
These very small percentages of IE are seen on the Internet, but try to look at the statistics of browsers used on some corporate intranet - there IE6 can be used on more than 50% of the machines. Cause Windows XP with IE6 preinstalled. That is why for many layout designers and programmers the problem of IE6 is still relevant.

Vitali Borovik, 2012-01-21
@WAYS

The problem is not in the 7th version, but in 8 with XP, I think it will be for a long time.

mapron, 2012-01-21
@mapron

Support is different:
-Full support, so that in IE7 everything looks and functions like in other browsers;
-Partial support, so that the website looks the same visually, but with the absence of some animations or small details
-Functional support: so that the site continues to work in IE7, the layout does not move around, menus and forms work.
(according to my experience).
If the first five years ago was the norm, now customers are more likely to ask for the latter (especially if you mention the surcharge).
and to the question HOW LONG? - the answer will depend on the target audience and the share of IE7 in it. Look at the same LI statistics of browsers for various popular projects (social networks, bulletin boards, IT resources), and draw conclusions about whether support should be provided in YOUR project and at what level.

Evengard, 2012-01-20
@Evengard

According to Statcounter, the share of IE7 is about 4%. IE6 has about 2. So most likely soon) I think that with the release of Win8 this process will speed up even more. So I think presumably after a couple of months after the release of the RTM version of Win8.

egorinsk, 2012-01-21
@egorinsk

And what's the problem with typesetting under IE7 (and IE6, but for example without rounded corners)? I don't see such a problem. The typesetters were completely lazy, I remember in our time ...

MT, 2012-01-21
@MTonly

At the turn of 2011-2012. the total share of IE6 and IE7 in Russia has fallen below 5%, so for Russian-language sites it is already possible to abandon IE7 without any problems according to the scheme with an independent simplified style sheet . If the layout is semantic, the approach works fine.

Sergey, 2012-01-21
Protko @Fesor

simple arithmetic. IE6 came out in 2001. Died in 2011. Total 10 years. IE7 came out in 2006. So no later than 2016. Of course, given the pace of IE updates lately, there is little hope that this will happen an order of magnitude and not one faster. But I think the next 2 years there will be little hope.

ArtKun, 2012-01-21
@ArtKun

As far as the right move from Google is Chrome auto-update. It even saved me from an avalanche of calls with the questions “Why doesn’t music play on VKontakte?” etc.

1nd1go, 2012-01-21
@1nd1go

Recently it was reported, and it slipped somewhere on habré, that microsoft will deliver browser updates via winupdate, which should kill ie7 faster than ie6

Maxim Makhnyuk, 2012-01-22
@djem

With IE6, I got the feeling that I would have to wait for the computers that run it to physically die out. :)