I heard on the radio the other day that it's estimated that something like 60% of internet browsing is still done on IE. I'm sure these are mostly old people tooling around Facebook, and soccer moms buying crap on Overstock.com. Obviously, that's not the set we cater to, but we do have a handful of users who still use IE. I think _refugee_ has mentioned that her work mandates it. Sucks for her. If there's anyone insom would fix the CSS for though, it'd be her. Otherwise, I'd agree that "fuck 'em" is the best approach here.
60% of internet browsing is still done on IE
It's not that bad.
That graph looks like a good overall breakdown. What's more interesting is how the browser stats change from site to site. Good web developers take the demographics of the specific site into consideration when determining which features to use and what browsers to code for first - just like marketers and copywriters chose the language and medium they use. I don't have the exact stats in front of me but Hubski has a very low percentage of IE users. My work's site (we sell b2b products) as well as the site we developed for internal coke employees is extremely high: up to 70% are on IE some days. The discrepancies are even more dramatic for email marketing. Typically, 80% of opens from my work's email marketing are opened in Outlook. Maybe 2 or 3 are for Hubski Newsletter. It makes sense since we are selling b2b so everyone on that list should be someone at their job who would buy our products and offices overwhelming use Outlook.
Honestly I would expect it's a lot of work people too. I've been at three different banks in the past 4 years and the current one is the only one that even allows you to have other web browsers. (And thank god for that.) I haven't even bothered bringing up the IE problems because I know they're problems with IE and possibly not even worth fixing. Insom has encouraged me to try to get my workplace to switch browsers but in a company of 40,000 people (and see below comment where I reply to insom) I ain't makin big enough waves to talk to the right people. Nor do I work in tech - and tech probably knows it's a problem.
You're right. I would do anything for refugee! I literally gave her the shirt off my back. :P If there's anyone insom would fix the CSS for though, it'd be her