Comments on: Website statistics

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:08:12 +0000

IE6 will stay around because of the required WGA upgrade when updating to IE7. If you ask me, Microsoft shot themselves in the face with that decision.

By: john

john — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:49:34 +0000

IE7 is too ugly! It has no menubar,I won’t use it.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:17:53 +0000

Yes, corporate policy is definitely a deciding factor for many companies delayed switch to IE 7. However, I would venture that it’s rarely just a matter of poor judgment or misinformation. Things like employee training, possible incompatibility with existing internal applications and websites, and the process of actually deploying the update are all costs associated with switching versions. Each company’s CTO has to balance those costs with the benefits of upgrading.

As time goes on those benefits outweigh the costs to a far greater degree; however, I think, depending on the size of the organization and other factors, a case could be made for an organization not switching to IE 7 yet.

By: Kriz

Kriz — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:00:58 +0000

1) Updating IE6 means testing and eventually fixing otherwise perfectly working internal web sites/pages and applications reusing browser components. Mass deployment isn’t free either. Upgrading will cost you a lot of money without gaining anything. Mostly because …

2) … all popular and important sites look perfectly fine when watched with IE6 – so there is no compelling reason to upgrade.

3) See 1) and 2) above + FF is more hyped than good. Most people I’ve talked to like the new IE7 UI – especially after realising that they havn’t used the menu bar for ages and it only eats up valuable screen estate.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:56:41 +0000

1. Policy is a legitimate reason for using IE6, but I have to wonder about the people who make such policies.

2. I meant to imply that using IE6 to test is perfectly fine, and it is in fact necessary considering the large number of people still using it. That doesn’t explain the number of hits against my site though. (Who else needs to test it?)

3. In that case why not just use FF anyway?

By: RichB

RichB — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:13:14 +0000

Reasons for using IE6:

1) Company policy (I’ve experienced this)
2) I’m a dev. I need to test against IE6. I find the site works 99% in IE7 if I’ve tested with FF & IE6. Instead if I regularly test against IE7 & FF, then I have no chance of getting a site working in IE6.
3) IE7 has an appalling, confusing UI. Toolbar buttons in obscure places. The menu strip used to be hidden until MS realized the error of their ways and brought it back with a patch. I have family members who do not want to upgrade due to the awful UI.