Development - Should I cater for IE6 users?

[Coupet]

I'm creating a small scale website and I'm wondering if it's worth my time developing to cater for the needs of those who use IE6?

[Fiendly]

Depends on what your websites intended purpose is.
I would just to be on the safe side, surely they should upgrade but personal choice I suppose.

Plus developing for older browsers kills some time

[Recursion]

Yes, it's still a major browser (unfortunately)

[Adam]

It's still the majority browswer I believe, however it depends on who your key demographic is.

[Agnostic Bear]

NO DON'T

[MisturMan]

Do it, what's the harm in spending a couple of hours on just catering for more people to view your site, surely it's worth it to make sure more people know you're a professional and serious website?

[Chippiewill]

Only 10.7% now, most English speaking countries are now below 3%. They're also all business people anyway.
http://www.ie6countdown.com/

Google ended support a while back, you should do. Redirect them to get google chrome or to porn instead. Trust me, you didn't want that web traffic anyway.

[Homosexual]

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp shows that only 2.4% of internet users use IE6, so I'd say no.

[HotelUser]

I would recommend only going out of your way to make sure everything works in IE8 (and even that's annoying).

[Chippiewill]

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp shows that only 2.4% of internet users use IE6, so I'd say no.

Yes, let's ignore the official Microsoft statistics and instead let's look at what a web development site visited almost entirely by web savvy people what *most* people use as their web browser.