Tristan Botly » digital producer http://www.tristanbotly.com A digital project manager and Wordpress advocate living in Bangkok Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:52:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Why Internet Explorer 6 is awesome http://www.tristanbotly.com/why-internet-explorer-6-is-awesome/ http://www.tristanbotly.com/why-internet-explorer-6-is-awesome/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:08:20 +0000 http://www.tristanbotly.com/?p=160 A provocative title, and certainly one the web developer community doesn’t hold but I want you to picture this for a moment:

  • You own a business
  • You started this company from the ground up and every dollar earned is 35 cents to pay your ex-wife/husband with
  • You sell a high value product (above $1500’s to a very niche market)

Your web stats show this:

This is a real world example from a client of mine, the average time on one day for 5 users using IE6 was over 3 times as much as the average for the day.*

What would you do when your agency says we are planning on not supporting IE6 any more.

After all it was only 5 potential customers right?

VOTE NOW!

I will publish the result of the poll on my twitter and buzz so follow me to find out how it goes:
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* Unfortunately at the moment we are lacking good goal data to see if these users are active in the buying process, I felt for a conversation starter though this was sufficient to post.

Buzz it!
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