How I wish this graph was smaller!
Seeing as I’m currently struggling with IE6 development, I can’t wait until this graph changes… substantially.
The increased cost, stress and pain involved with development for the legacy browser is ridiculous. Here’s hoping that the (imminent) release of IE8 will push more people to upgrade. But I doubt it.
Not quite sure how valid that graph is, considering how cost changes depending on size of the project and benefit changes depending on it’s market share and other factors. Also if your project heavily relies on server side scripting and a few generic templates, then the cost of developing for ie6 becomes rather negligable. I agree that I’d love for ie6 to be a non-factor, but that depends entirely on whether large corporations adopt a newer OS, which doesn’t look very likely.
Comment by Steve Johnstone — February 4, 2009 @ 10:32 am