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copied!<p>As well as the good answers regarding target audience and business factors there's another question that perhaps needs answering - <strong>what do you actually mean by support?</strong></p> <p>Does support mean that the website will look the same in IE6 as it does in modern browsers? Or does it mean that there may be consistencies within the design and layout of the website but the functionality remains identical? Perhaps not supporting the website means blocking anyone from viewing the website that is using IE6?</p> <p>There is an excellent post on this by <a href="http://adactio.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="Jeremy Keith">Jeremy Keith</a> called the <a href="http://24ways.org/2008/the-ie6-equation" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="The IE6 Equation">the IE6 Equation</a> where he states:</p> <blockquote> <p>Each end of that scale is extreme. I don’t think that anybody should be actively blocking any browser but neither do I think that users of an outdated browser should get exactly the same experience as users of a more modern browser. The real meanings of "supporting" or "not supporting" IE6 lie somewhere in-between those extremes.</p> </blockquote> <p>A lot of developers/designers are following the <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="Yahoo Graded Browser Support">Yahoo graded Browser Support</a> which is well worth a read. The Yahoo Graded Browser support defines ie6 as requiring A-grade support. This covers topic such as progressive enhancement and graceful degradation which may be of interest.</p> <p>So yes I personally do support IE6 so that I never turn anyone away from accessing my content but at what level - it depends.</p>

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