IE9 here. We deal with stale large corporates, and more than half of our clients now run IE10 as standard, though IE9 still has a meaningful share. We dropped IE8 support for all new releases in Jan this year.
I define a Modern Browser as: any browser with the ability to self-update to the latest version. These are the browsers most commonly used, and when a security vulnerability comes out they are on top of things. These all enjoy good HTML and CSS support, so I'm able to build what I need in a way that supports them all equally. If you come to me with a bug in a modern browser that's my bad - they should all be supported.
The second group of browsers are called Legacy Browsers: any browser which is isolated with no automatic upgrade path. This includes IE 8, 7, 6 as well as any legacy version of any other browser that didn't stay on the latest version. If you don't ask/pay for legacy support then I will design it using modern best practices and it will likely work well down to IE9.
For legacy support, I will support whatever browsers you wish at the normal hourly rate. If IE6 support is dear to you, and worth the cost I will happily dust off the ten-year-old techniques and give you the support you desire.
Keep in mind that IE8 doesn't include support for CSS @media queries, so most forms of responsive page layout will be impossible without the use of a polyfill! I think due to this, many sites that think they support IE8 don't actually render very well.
Project I am working on now is made only with Chrome/Firefox/Safari in mind, but the audience is mostly 20-25year old hipstery people IE share is less than 5% so we decided to not bother with support for them and just show a banner suggesting modern browser. But it's unusual to not support IE at all, usually I support 9+ if you want lower that will be extra fee.
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It still makes us around € 30K per month, and it makes sense, for now.
Unfortunately we have a number of clients using our product (particularly government) which still expect it to be supported :(
The second group of browsers are called Legacy Browsers: any browser which is isolated with no automatic upgrade path. This includes IE 8, 7, 6 as well as any legacy version of any other browser that didn't stay on the latest version. If you don't ask/pay for legacy support then I will design it using modern best practices and it will likely work well down to IE9.
For legacy support, I will support whatever browsers you wish at the normal hourly rate. If IE6 support is dear to you, and worth the cost I will happily dust off the ten-year-old techniques and give you the support you desire.
Keep in mind that IE8 doesn't include support for CSS @media queries, so most forms of responsive page layout will be impossible without the use of a polyfill! I think due to this, many sites that think they support IE8 don't actually render very well.