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No reason except that, unless your blog is aimed at the early adopter crowd, people would go "chrome what?" and go away.
by al_james 16y ago
No reason except that, unless your blog is aimed at the early adopter crowd, people would go "chrome what?" and go away.
- cookiecaper 16y ago"It's a chicken-egg situation", as they say. We have to break it. This cycle of perpetuating and supporting horrible consumer-grade technologies five, ten, and fifteen years after its obsolescence has to stop, or it'll always take fifteen years for any advances to manifest in a meaningful way. Yes, it can be painful, but the minimal level of such coaxing that has occurred has been helping -- IE's marketshare is shrinking ever smaller and currently stands in a place that people would have thought impossible just a few years ago. We can make a difference if we try. We just have to be willing to act boldly wherever we can. Personally, it is my opinion that every developer should find the investment in eradicating IE extremely worthwhile even if it costs him some sales or pageviews. The masses have proven that they will switch if something they want to do asks them to do so, so let's get it started. It is really silly that we don't do this already.
- al_james 16y agoEveryone's mileage will vary. Depending on audience, not supporting IE 6/7/8 may not be an option. Period.
- cookiecaper 16y agoObviously true. That is why I said "wherever we can", and not things like "wherever we can't", or "literally everywhere physically possible", etc.
- tomjen3 16y agoWhich is why I said personal blogs. Nobodys personal blog has to be seen in IE.
- Macha 16y agoThat depends: How wide an audience do they want to reach? Sure, they don't have to support IE, but just like a business, if they want the widest possible amount of readers, then yes, they should support IE.