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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, h2oz7v <h2oz7v at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I can't even comment on it because of:
>
> "Sorry... DaleAnthony doesn't support IE6."
>
> (I'm at work). Why completely block IE6?

Good point. I know it's the Cause of All Web Developer Pain*, but IE6
is still widely used, and often without any other choice being
available.

Check out Yahoo's Graded Browser Support rationale:

"In the first 10 years of professional web development, back in the
early '90s, browser support was binary: Do you — or don't you —
support a given browser? When the answer was "No", user access to the
site was often actively prevented. In the years following IE5's
release in 1998, professional web designers and developers have become
accustomed to asking at the outset of any new undertaking, "Do I have
to support Netscape 4.x browsers for this project?"

By contrast, in modern web development we must support all browsers.
Choosing to exclude a segment of users is inappropriate, and, with a
"Graded Browser Support" strategy, unnecessary.

Graded Browser Support offers two fundamental ideas:

    * A broader and more reasonable definition of "support."
    * The notion of "grades" of support."

-- http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/#history

Tim

* Maybe not all, but you know what I mean.