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An unfortunate datapoint: for one of our products I'm still seeing >25% users on IE8. This is a (primarily UK) product most of whose users are on internal bank

by tow21 11y ago

An unfortunate datapoint: for one of our products I'm still seeing >25% users on IE8. This is a (primarily UK) product most of whose users are on internal bank networks. It's come down from about 40% 2 years ago, so it's heading in the right direction - but I'm not sure I see it going away any time soon. There's huge organizational inertia inside these banks around IT systems - if we want to serve them, we need to support IE8 for the foreseeable future.

randlet 11y ago
Same story for me. I run an open source project used by hospitals and I think I'm stuck supporting IE8 for another year or two.
- hippich 11y ago
  hi, which project is that?
  - randlet 11y ago
    http://qatrackplus.com http://qatrackplus.com It's a self hosted Django app for tracking quality assurance data for radiation therapy centres (although it could easily be adapted for other purposes).
rogeryu 11y ago
They are probably XP users. You can create a small notification on top of your website, notifying them that they should move to Firefox or Chrome because their browser is not safe anymore...
- wlesieutre 11y ago
  Chrome support for XP ends at the end of the year. http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/16/google-will-still-support-chrome-on-windows-xp-until-the-end-of-the-year/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/16/google-will-still-support-c... Firefox (as far as I can tell) still supports XP SP2, but who knows for how long.
- dccoolgai 11y ago
  "they should move to Firefox or Chrome because their browser is not safe anymore..." You are assuming that they have a choice. A large chunk of them most likely don't.
  - acdha 11y ago
    The wording on those messages needs to be tailored for that: “Please contact your system administrator to request a secure browser” The only way enterprise IT departments will upgrade is when they start having to take responsibility for security problems. As long as they can lie to their users and claim there's no need to upgrade, they will.

by tow21 11y ago

randlet 11y ago

Same story for me. I run an open source project used by hospitals and I think I'm stuck supporting IE8 for another year or two.

hippich 11y ago
hi, which project is that?
- randlet 11y ago
  http://qatrackplus.com http://qatrackplus.com It's a self hosted Django app for tracking quality assurance data for radiation therapy centres (although it could easily be adapted for other purposes).

rogeryu 11y ago

They are probably XP users. You can create a small notification on top of your website, notifying them that they should move to Firefox or Chrome because their browser is not safe anymore...

wlesieutre 11y ago
Chrome support for XP ends at the end of the year. http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/16/google-will-still-support-chrome-on-windows-xp-until-the-end-of-the-year/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/16/google-will-still-support-c... Firefox (as far as I can tell) still supports XP SP2, but who knows for how long.
dccoolgai 11y ago
"they should move to Firefox or Chrome because their browser is not safe anymore..." You are assuming that they have a choice. A large chunk of them most likely don't.
- acdha 11y ago
  The wording on those messages needs to be tailored for that: “Please contact your system administrator to request a secure browser” The only way enterprise IT departments will upgrade is when they start having to take responsibility for security problems. As long as they can lie to their users and claim there's no need to upgrade, they will.