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The Top 30 Websites, Viewed in IE6

12 November 2010 / 10 Comments

The Top 30 Websites, Viewed in IE6

Internet Explorer 6. Nine years on, it’s still a headache for web designers and developers across the globe!

Most of us would like to forget about this horrid old browser — first launched in 2001, for crying out loud — but there’s always that client or user who insists on using it (or is forced to by their employer). Even among the audience of W3Schools — a web-savvy crowd if ever there was one — there are still around 5% of visitors using IE6 at the time of writing.

The result of all this is that we are forced to spend hours of extra coding time, just to make our sites work in this outdated browser.

How many big sites these days actually bother supporting IE6?

But how many big sites these days actually bother supporting IE6? One might think that they all would, considering their huge user bases. But is this the case?

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Internet Explorer Conditional Comments

1 August 2006 / Leave a Comment

What are conditional comments?

Conditional comments are a simple Internet-Explorer-only feature that Microsoft added to IE5 Windows and later. (Mac IE doesn’t support them.) They provide an easy way to detect that the visitor is using an IE browser (and which version they’re using). You can then serve IE users different blocks of HTML as required.

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