On: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

[monsterix]

Believe it or not, in my previous company people were happy with IE4/5/6. I mean really happy with the blue icon in the middle of their screen. They did not want to move to IE7 even because it was simply "enough" for them. Happy married life, complete in all respects. And this was year 2011, not very far back.

Even in China, they say, a significant percentage of population lives happily with IE6 or below. Don't know the latest stats, but I am sure not much has changed there for good. If captain Jack Sparrow needs a broken compass for navigation, then broken compass is exactly what he'd use for navigation. What can anyone do about it?

[Edits: Jack Sparrow]

[majke → monsterix]

Yes, I'd like to see some chinese sites on the list.

For what I can test http://www.alibaba.com/ looks decent in IE6.

One in four browsers in china are IE6. Source: http://www.ie6countdown.com/

(can someone check baidu.com, qq.com, sina.com.cn, csdn.net, alibaba.com in IE5?)

[melling → majke]

Just depends on the source. According to this, active users is less than 5%:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-201203...

[dherken → majke]

All 5 pages render fine on IE 5 (I cannot read the text though). Only baidu gives me a JS error message, but seems to work regardless...