How much time do you spend coding for IE

[eluser]simshaun[/eluser]
[quote author="slowgary" date="1239746212"]I agree with much of what you say but in a decade of doing on-site computer repairs, I've never met a client who wasn't more than willing to change browsers based on my recommendation. They simply don't care. The only question I'm used to hearing is "Can you save my favorites?"[/quote]I was only giving reasons why people might still have IE6. I was not suggesting that they shouldn't upgrade/or wouldn't (with the exception to some companies).

I've seen many designers double their time-to-markup due to IE6 fixes. If half of your time is spent slicing a design, and the other half is spent "fixing" it for IE6, your time is not being spent well.

It depends how you define spending your time well. If its important to the client that their site appears the same in IE6, then the time is being spent well. In reality though, I really don't spend much time getting a site to work in IE6. The majority of issues are solved with a conditional comment and a couple lines of CSS. (It takes very little time.) I guess if you aren't aware of the issues and their respective fixes, thats a different story.

I agree that clients will never understand this and will ALWAYS want their site to work in every browser, but it's just not possible.

Agreed, but repeating my last post, I was not suggesting that you support every browser.