Topic: IE detection

Don’t be lazy, download a good browser

Sasha Dzeletovic, Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 2:38 pm

Why are we developers still taking a hit for Microsoft's IE6 by doing additional work for it? Well we are certainly not eager about it . "The Market" is directing us by showing us that people use it a lot.

The market says that about 15% of people today are using IE6 which is 8 years old now.

Nothing to be surprised about.

Recently, we at Pathfinder were presented with statistics of usage for a desktop software created in-house showing the biggest drop in workflow at software installation reinforcing the point that people have a hard time installing software, so why would they go around installing a new browser when they already have one? Most people are under the impression that "the site" or "the internet" doesn't work and not the browser they are using and there's nobody there to tell most people what the problem really is.
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