D_Blackwell - 11:10 pm on Oct 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

Depends entirely upon your percentage of IE6 users and impact upon $$$. I no longer support IE6 because I don't have to do so. None of my sites have a high enough percentage to justify. Also, I lump obsolete browser users with third-tier customers. Lower ticket averages, lees sophistication, more trouble....

However, there are a lot of IE6 users out there. Government agencies, underfunded and understaffed organizations..... Very good point by tangor on 'corporate situations'. Corporate IT department are rightfully slow to adopt new stuff unless it is security related. How many corporate IT departments decided that moving to Vista would be a good thing? LOL If any of the core remaining groups affect you - then IE6 is a big deal - right or wrong is not relevant.

It's partly personal. I don't want to support these people and am always pleased to stop. Yet I continue to test pages in Opera (Why?), which, outside of the geek world no longer exists for practical purposes, without regard to to its quality. I have more IE6 users than Opera in all versions. Should I suport Opera. On most of my sites, the numbers say absolutely not. I choose to do so because it is easy to do so and gives me an extra layer of 'rendering opinion' for my pages. FF isn't perfect either.