On Sat, 15 Mar 2014, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 15/03/2014 03:09, Eggert, Lars wrote: > > On 2014-3-14, at 14:01, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> If we take the Web as 25 years old, then Internet Explorer 6 is part of > >> the first half of the Web's existance. You are 13 years and five major > >> revisions behind and have reasonable alternatives available; you should > >> not expect constant reminders. > > > > +1 > > > > IE6 is now less than 0.25% of web requests. Adding any sort of support for it is pointless. > > Agreed, but on the other hand, using only a simple subset of HTML > may make a lot of sense for a variety of reasons. However, that > probably belongs on the IAOC Revamp thread. I don't care about IE6 per se, but I do care about the heavy footprint impact of 'fancy' browser based applications. Minimization of the complexity is an important goal in my opinion.