I’ve finally gotten around to doing some stuff to this blog. I’m trying this theme and so far I’m happier with it. I’ll be doing some more customisation shortly!
Obsolete browsers
I have decided that I won’t even test my personal sites in IE6 any more. There are a few features I’m planning on adding which I know will be a pain to make sure IE6 will render them correctly. (Alpha-channel PNGs and position:fixed for starters)
Do yourself a favour and download (one of, in order of preference) Firefox, Opera, Safari or Chrome. You don’t have to get rid of IE to use an alternative browser. Use IE for your silly Intranet sites but use the alternative browser for your daily browsing. Firefox has a wide range of plugins which will make your browsing experience much better. I’ll describe the plugins I use in another post.
(My corporate sites, unfortunately, will have to continue to support IE6 as too many corporations and governments are dragging their feet and are sticking with the 7+ year old browser.)
Interesting fact: on our consumer website after a few months in operation the browser break down is approximately 40% IE7, 32% Firefox, 16% IE6, 7% Safari, 2% Chrome, 2% IE8 and 1% Opera. I haven’t analysed the Operating systems used yet, but there is a fairly large minority of Mac users. These numbers (mostly) don’t include the people in the office as we have a separate server for our own development/testing use. These are per-user stats, not per-hit, taking the most recent log-in only.