- From: Ron van den Boogaard <ron@ronvdb.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:21:16 +0200
- To: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>
- Cc: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com>, 'Sylvain Galineau' <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, 'Www-style' <www-style@w3.org>
On 24 apr 2008, at 17:29, Brad Kemper wrote: > > > On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: > >> Since this is relating to CSSOM and HTML5 which IE8 will not >> support and since IE8 'doesn't' have the 'hasLayout' hack/bug [1] >> why not just ignore what IE5~IE7 does. Then the quirks mode of IE9 >> will be IE8 standard mode behavior. This seems the sensible >> approach for interoperability. > > On the general pubic audience site I monitor, about half of the IE > users are on IE6 (about 35% of our total audience), and accessing > during work hours. I don't see any mad rush to IE8 anytime soon. It > will be years before the share of IE6 users (or IE8+ operating in > some sort of IE6 mode) dwindles to insignificance. > It's a fair assumption that IE7 will be replaced quite rapidly by IE8 (automatic update) and that the market-share of IE6 will just decrease very, very slowly (over years probably) Ron van den Boogaard ron@ronvdb.com
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