[TYPO3-english] Gifbuilder - GIFs for IE6 and PNG for all other browsers ?

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Thijs Hakkenberg <thijs at hakkenberg.com> wrote:
>  If I were you I'd just use a notice for IE6 users and save yourself the
> trouble.
> If you look at the market share of IE6:
> 2010    IE8 <http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp>   IE7
> <http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp>   IE6
> <http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp>   Firefox
> <http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_firefox.asp>        Chrome
> <http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_chrome.asp>  Safari
> <http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_safari.asp>  Opera
> <http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_opera.asp>
> June    15.7%   8.1%    7.2%    46.6%   15.9%   3.6%    2.1%
> May     16.0%   9.1%    7.1%    46.9%   14.5%   3.5%    2.2%
> April   16.2%   9.3%    7.9%    46.4%   13.6%   3.7%    2.2%
> March   15.3%   10.7%   8.9%    46.2%   12.3%   3.7%    2.2%
> February        14.7%   11.0%   9.6%    46.5%   11.6%   3.8%    2.1%
> January         14.3%   11.7%   10.2%   46.3%   10.8%   3.7%    2.2%
>
> it's less then 8%. Still a large share, but not large enough imho to make
> modifications.
> I use this ext to politely inform people with IE6:
> http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/pmkihateie/0.3.0/view/


It may be true that any given site's proportion of IE6 visitors is too
low to require additional support, but it is *not* safe to use any
other site's traffic statistics to make this decision. Indeed, given
that it's a site dealing with web development in general, there is
some reason to think that w3schools' IE6 market share is much *lower*
than is typical.


-- 
Christopher Torgalson
http://www.typo3apprentice.com/