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The web site I'm working on at the moment will reject IE altogether. I'm doing this for the first time ever in my career. A bit risky, I know. Just looked at so

by mojuba 16y ago

The web site I'm working on at the moment will reject IE altogether. I'm doing this for the first time ever in my career. A bit risky, I know. Just looked at some of my pages in IE8/9 and realized how much work I saved by not supporting this nonsensical monster that is Internet Explorer.

lenni 16y ago
What is the website's audience and is it private or for work? Whenever I've done side projects, I just build it for modern browsers and then maybe make it just a bit better than not working on the most recent IE.
Niten 16y ago
That seems sort of user-hostile, but hey, it's your call. I don't consider even IE 8 to be a burden any more. It doesn't get some CSS effects right, but stuff generally renders OK without modification. I can sort of understand blocking IE 8 if you really don't want people to see your site without border-radius or whatever, and if you don't feel like taking the time to patch it up with conditional code, and if all those lost visitors don't matter to you... But so far I've found IE 9 to be spot-on. Are you experiencing a rendering glitch with the latest beta? If not for rendering issues, then what's to be gained by blocking potential visitors or users just because you don't like their choice of software?
masklinn 16y ago
> The web site I'm working on at the moment will reject IE altogether. That is... dumb. Just don't to anything, it'll look broken in IE but no more. If you want to do something specifically about IE, add some kind of warning bar with a conditional comment. You have no idea what the future holds, and locking out a whole line of browsers out of a site is stupid.
- MichaelGG 16y ago
  And please, if you add a warning, make it to the effect of "Hey, we know there's an issue with your browser, sorry.", instead of some line about IE being evil and standards and so on.
  - masklinn 16y ago
    Well, on the other hand saying "we know there is an issue with your browser, sorry" may mark you as an incompetent fool to your readers.
- jawee 16y ago
  Have you considered redirecting IE to the mobile version of your site? Surprisingly, when using IE6 at school I have found that more and more websites are doing that for at least older versions..
- mojuba 16y ago
  Web sites (potentially) have different levels of dictatorship over the client depending on the value of information or service they provide. For example, only after opening a bank account I found out that their online banking requires Windows and IE (and that, in fact, their online banking is incredibly crappy). I bought a Windows laptop just for accessing my bank account online. For whatever reasons changing the bank would be a big hassle for me. In a way, the bank has a monopoly for accessing my account and related services. This is why their dictatorship works most of the time. On the other hand, if you are a startup trying to gain larger market share, the situation would be of course exact opposite: you will make your service work on as many platforms as possible. In my case it's a monopoly. People will access the web site because it would be the only official source. Unless my client revolts of course, I'm going to experimentally drop IE support and see what happens.
sathyabhat 16y ago
> The web site I'm working on at the moment will reject IE altogether. Don't. What you're doing will be no different from what some of the sites do when they say "You need Internet Explorer" installed. I'm not a web developer here, so I don't know how much effort will be required but the end result is the same frustration that I encounter when I visit a web page which says "You need Internet Explorer" installed.
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by mojuba 16y ago

lenni 16y ago

What is the website's audience and is it private or for work? Whenever I've done side projects, I just build it for modern browsers and then maybe make it just a bit better than not working on the most recent IE.

Niten 16y ago

That seems sort of user-hostile, but hey, it's your call. I don't consider even IE 8 to be a burden any more. It doesn't get some CSS effects right, but stuff generally renders OK without modification. I can sort of understand blocking IE 8 if you really don't want people to see your site without border-radius or whatever, and if you don't feel like taking the time to patch it up with conditional code, and if all those lost visitors don't matter to you... But so far I've found IE 9 to be spot-on. Are you experiencing a rendering glitch with the latest beta? If not for rendering issues, then what's to be gained by blocking potential visitors or users just because you don't like their choice of software?

masklinn 16y ago

> The web site I'm working on at the moment will reject IE altogether. That is... dumb. Just don't to anything, it'll look broken in IE but no more. If you want to do something specifically about IE, add some kind of warning bar with a conditional comment. You have no idea what the future holds, and locking out a whole line of browsers out of a site is stupid.

MichaelGG 16y ago
And please, if you add a warning, make it to the effect of "Hey, we know there's an issue with your browser, sorry.", instead of some line about IE being evil and standards and so on.
- masklinn 16y ago
  Well, on the other hand saying "we know there is an issue with your browser, sorry" may mark you as an incompetent fool to your readers.
jawee 16y ago
Have you considered redirecting IE to the mobile version of your site? Surprisingly, when using IE6 at school I have found that more and more websites are doing that for at least older versions..
mojuba 16y ago
Web sites (potentially) have different levels of dictatorship over the client depending on the value of information or service they provide. For example, only after opening a bank account I found out that their online banking requires Windows and IE (and that, in fact, their online banking is incredibly crappy). I bought a Windows laptop just for accessing my bank account online. For whatever reasons changing the bank would be a big hassle for me. In a way, the bank has a monopoly for accessing my account and related services. This is why their dictatorship works most of the time. On the other hand, if you are a startup trying to gain larger market share, the situation would be of course exact opposite: you will make your service work on as many platforms as possible. In my case it's a monopoly. People will access the web site because it would be the only official source. Unless my client revolts of course, I'm going to experimentally drop IE support and see what happens.

sathyabhat 16y ago

> The web site I'm working on at the moment will reject IE altogether. Don't. What you're doing will be no different from what some of the sites do when they say "You need Internet Explorer" installed. I'm not a web developer here, so I don't know how much effort will be required but the end result is the same frustration that I encounter when I visit a web page which says "You need Internet Explorer" installed.

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