Why Won’t IE6 Die? AKA My View of Current Browser Usage
The following table outlines current browser usage across several sites for which I have analytics access. This represents the trailing 30 days, ending yesterday, 2008-06-25. While not a full cross section of the Internet there’s a reasonable spread between the sites in terms of age and technology experience, so this sample should be reasonably interesting to those of you who care about such things. It’s interesting enough for me to post about 
| IE 6 | IE 7 | Firefox (all ) | Safari (all ) | Other | Total Visitors | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 15133 | 24739 | 20165 | 3102 | 2649 | 65788 |
| Percentages | 23% | 38% | 31% | 5% | 4% |
As you can see, while it’s now third, Internet Explorer 6 is still hanging on with unfortunate tenacity. Which means we still have great pain to deal with when trying to develop cross-browser web sites in this rich, interactive era.
I also means there’s demand for people like me who know how to handle the beast, so I guess I should look to that as a silver lining…
Still, die IE6 die.