I apologize for not being more clear. I was thinking about the flexbox more than the IE9 deprecation. The jQuery story was only to reinforce the idea that ope

I apologize for not being more clear. I was thinking about the flexbox more than the IE9 deprecation. The jQuery story was only to reinforce the idea that open source projects are "at the negotiating table". http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox There is a footnote on that page for IE11 (I believe still supported by Microsoft) that says: "Partial support is due to large amount of bugs present (see known issues)".