Discontinue support for IE 5.x Mac?
I'm considering halting support of IE 5.x on the Mac. I really can't stand the browser. It's 3 years old, buggy as hell and discontinued by Microsoft anyway. I'm tired of having to use multiple CSS hacks to make it behave. Among Mac users, there still seems to be alot of people using it though. Thoughts? Comments?
June 9th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
[…] In the meantime, I did happen to notice that the site looks terrible in IE 5 on Mac. Last August, I posted my thoughts about abandoning support for IE 5 Mac. Since then, I've not supported it by default. I do my best to make a site functional in IE 5 Mac, and I can still fix 99% of the problems I run into with it, but I just don't stress about it or spend much time on it. When I wrote that post, I'd done some research into what other developers were saying about supporting IE 5 Mac and I found that the vast majority still thought it should be supported because alot of people still use it. I went the other direction, and now it seems that CBC.ca has as well. […]