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It will be a while still before you can actually party. As long as a measurable percentage of your users are still on these browsers, you're missing out on mone
by rrss1122 11y ago
It will be a while still before you can actually party. As long as a measurable percentage of your users are still on these browsers, you're missing out on money of you don't support them.
- al2o3cr 11y ago"As long as a measurable percentage of your users are still on these browsers, you're missing out on money of you don't support them." This seems to be a common refrain here. It's missing an important caveat: "unless supporting those browsers costs more than the customers are worth". Supporting ancient IEs means things like: avoiding features that can't be polyfilled, providing XP images for CI, debugging IE issues, etc. None of these happen for free.
- jedberg 11y agoTrue but at least now Microsoft will be bugging them (and more likely their IT departments) to upgrade. Even the most conservative CIO will have a hard time justifying not upgrading at this point.
- tombrossman 11y agoBusinesses might be missing out on customer money if they don't support obsolete browsers, but the people developing the webapp/website/whatever are definitely missing out if they don't start with 'we support all modern mainstream browsers' and then supply a separate bid for old IE support. Let the business decide whether the significant extra cost is offset by the extra income from these users.