h5bp/html5-boilerplate — comment on commit aa0396eae757c9e03dda4e463fb0d4db5a5f82d7
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By mrazzari:

@necolas you're right, and I apologize for the tone of my comment.

I'm just very pissed with the general trend to just pretend IE6 users don't exist. I know you and @paulirish have said, in previous issues here and in your blog, that h5bp is committed to supporting IE6 for the time being. That's why this change landing on master caught me a bit off guard. So, again, my apologies.

That said, W-E's market's share is diminishing, but it's still very relevant. (In particular, [it seems](http://blog.blindsoftware.com/?p=20), for "business" users.)

I think everyone agrees that minor layout differences are OK, and even major ones if talking about IE6. But having visual glitches over a site's logo or icons (where .ir is most useful, and glitches more visible), seems like too risky an assumption to be considered a best practice.

Re: inline-block, since it needs workarounds to work in oldIE anyway, I'd assume you're CSS-savy and can fix your text-indent conflicts.
The new method, OTOH, would inflict IE6 bugs on the not-so-savy crowds.