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I'm at a fraction of a percentage for IE 8 as of yesterday in a sampling of over 100,000 sessions. If the sample is from desktop only users, that numbers moves
by AJ007 11y ago
I'm at a fraction of a percentage for IE 8 as of yesterday in a sampling of over 100,000 sessions. If the sample is from desktop only users, that numbers moves up.
That is still a large enough number to matter for a startup where those make or break growth & retention numbers matter. It would be insane to throw out 1% of your visitors while other employees are doing cartwheels in A/B testing for 2% improvements.
The general principle I follow is drop support if a platform no longer receives security updates. The second part of that is to continue to produce a simplified version of your site that should work on all browsers. This provides big benefits for disability access, low bandwidth users (which is all of the developing markets), and edge cases.
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- wj 11y agoProbably depends on a site's audience. I know in the financial industry that an unfortunately large amount of people still use IE8 as many vendor websites require it (long live Active X). But I imagine the visitors to many B2C websites no longer use IE8.
- thedufer 11y ago> That is still a large enough number to matter for a startup where those make or break growth & retention numbers matter. I disagree. I work at one of said startups, and we have dropped support for IE9 and below. We figure the 50+% increase in productivity (directly translated into new features, speed improvements, etc.) is well worth it.