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Ask HN: Do you still support IE11 for new projects?
I have to make a decision if I will support IE11 for a new Saas project (targeting non-enterprise users). It looks like it would require a major effort, comparable to the IE6 hell. On the other side IE11 has still about 20% of market share.
- douche 10y agoOf course. We have large, well-paying customers still using IE 8.
- andrewmcwatters 10y agoYeah, basically go where the money is. I mean, if people want to use IE 8, that's perfectly fine in the realm of business transactions, I suppose. These days you even get to charge them a premium for it.
- tobltobs 10y agoMaybe I should change the title to "... for new projects". If you still have customers on IE8 I guess it is different situation. But if you start a new project, which is not targeted at Enterprise users, you will have to make the decision if you invest your available time into supporting a dying(?) browser or more features.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoDoes it become any more clear what the answer is if you ask "should I support Windows 7 and Windows 8"? And heck, even among Windows 10, many organizations are using IE11 for compatibility reasons over Edge. It's the presently supported web browser that is assumed default for enterprise on Windows (and it'll likely be supported as such for several years yet). I'd argue if you intend to support customers using Windows, then it's an absolute must.
- TechHawk 10y agoHere is a list of all currently supported Internet Explorer versions (green, yellow): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_version_history#Release_history_for_desktop_Windows_OS_version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_version_hist... At the time of this writing, basically >= IE9. One could argue that this is quiet far back, but I would definitely support IE11 since it is supported on Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. In my experience, IE11 has pretty good support of web technologies, so I would not go as far to call it IE6 hell.