Comments on: Outsourcing IE6 bug fixes: good or bad idea?

By: larry grover

larry grover — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:43:03 +0000

I’d pay for it! Why not? My clients still ask for IE 6. Even though IE 8 is out, I still think it will be a while until we can really ignore 6.

Who cares if it’s not a viable long term business model? Someone who was willing to spend all their time fighting IE 6 could probably do well for a little while at least.

I do believe in the ‘code as art’ philosophy – but my time is important enough to me that I’d happily let someone else hack up an IE specific stylesheet..

By: Waffle Pirate

Waffle Pirate — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:17:54 +0000

Personally – This is a bad idea, and probably a waste of your precious time. For one; Google have asked people to stop using IE 6, quite a lot of people use Google and IE 6′s market share is going to drop substantially in 2009.

Windows 7 is introducing IE 8, and going by the great feedback its received – I can personally see IE 7 and 8 being the norm shortly.

Good idea though. It would have been successful if you came up with this 4 years ago or so, no doubt.

By: Fredrik Karlsson

Fredrik Karlsson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:59:56 +0000

I’m never comfortable with letting anyone else near my code. Mostly because I havn’t met anyone in my near proximity who’s even aware of w3c-standards or IE6-bugs. So I prefer to fix everything myself.

However, reading that IE8 will be pushed to Vista/XP as an important windows update, I’m hoping that IE6 will finally start phasing out this year… and that IE8 doesn’t bring any new bugs to the table .

By: Artem

Artem — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:38:56 +0000

I don’t think it would be as successful as the PSD to HTML business just because IE6 is fading out with IE7 being the current version and IE8 on the horizon…while the PSD to HTML has no such decline in sight