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Developing for Chrome is not an unreasonable ask and many vendors are asking for it these days. Any new service should get minimal resistance. At my org we use

Developing for Chrome is not an unreasonable ask and many vendors are asking for it these days. Any new service should get minimal resistance. At my org we use Chrome or Edge as the default and define ie11-only sites in group policy. When you navigate, IE11 pops up automatically. As an aside a company I used to work for was so underwater on tech debt that instead of modernizing their site they repackaged IE9 as a citrix app that business partners had to run. People are willing to overlook a lot when the commissions are good and that was not the worst thing I have seen in the insurance space.

mrkstu 7y ago
We recently transitioned to Chrome and use IE Tab on predefined sites. It’s a good compromise of standardizing on a modern browser and still being able to access a couple straggler apps.
- gsnedders 7y ago
  What's the motivation to use Chrome and IE Tab v. MS Edge (where the Chromium-based product supports IE Tab-like functionality natively)? Or just long enough ago before the Chromium-based Edge shipped?
  - mrkstu 7y ago
    Prior to Microsoft’s change of engines, or at least around the same time. Plus it isn’t like anyone wanted to use IE or Edge, so we would of likely gone the same path regardless.
    - gsnedders 7y ago
      It's not clear to be Chromium-based Edge is an any worse product than Chrome (and in many ways is going further down the anti-ad-tracking route than Chrome, unsurprisingly), but I expect the Trident integration in their IE Mode is better than IE Tab?
      - mrkstu 7y ago
        I doubt anyone is using Edge enough to find out. Generally now people are trained to Chrome regardless (most people home and work), and w/the IE Tab extension there is no motivation to investigate. As a side note, I would guess most non-GSuite users are logging into their Google account on Chrome and getting a unifed bookmark, whereas if they sign into a MS account at work/Edge, it will have to be their work Office365 account, breaking their unified browsing experience.
wolco 7y ago
chrome or edge.. Did you forget to include firefox. It isn't an unreasonable ask to support firefox. Many vendors are asking for it these days.
- Jetrel 7y ago
  To Firefox's credit, generally you don't need to. Almost everything I work with, outside of bleeding-edge experimental features, ends up in a setup where I write something for chrome and it works flawlessly in Firefox. And safari. It's only IE where solidly "old, tried and true" browser features end up breaking down in bizarre and interesting ways. The only reason we have this big conversation about "supporting" different browsers is because one single holdout has been that bad for so long. And to even MS's credit, I think a large part of that has been the fact that they're not "evergreen" (i.e forcing all users to be on the current version). They've always been doomed by the fact that "what they're judged on" isn't their current work, but is usually the version that's _almost a decade_ out of date.
- jabroni_salad 7y ago
  We have GPOs for it and it is in our software center but no external vendor I know of specifies it as a hard requirement like they do chrome or IE. If I have to ticket a vendor for a website issue their call taker is going to ask if I'm using their favorite browser. desktop management is 20% tech and 80% bureaucracy.

mrkstu 7y ago

We recently transitioned to Chrome and use IE Tab on predefined sites. It’s a good compromise of standardizing on a modern browser and still being able to access a couple straggler apps.

gsnedders 7y ago
What's the motivation to use Chrome and IE Tab v. MS Edge (where the Chromium-based product supports IE Tab-like functionality natively)? Or just long enough ago before the Chromium-based Edge shipped?
- mrkstu 7y ago
  Prior to Microsoft’s change of engines, or at least around the same time. Plus it isn’t like anyone wanted to use IE or Edge, so we would of likely gone the same path regardless.
  - gsnedders 7y ago
    It's not clear to be Chromium-based Edge is an any worse product than Chrome (and in many ways is going further down the anti-ad-tracking route than Chrome, unsurprisingly), but I expect the Trident integration in their IE Mode is better than IE Tab?
    - mrkstu 7y ago
      I doubt anyone is using Edge enough to find out. Generally now people are trained to Chrome regardless (most people home and work), and w/the IE Tab extension there is no motivation to investigate. As a side note, I would guess most non-GSuite users are logging into their Google account on Chrome and getting a unifed bookmark, whereas if they sign into a MS account at work/Edge, it will have to be their work Office365 account, breaking their unified browsing experience.

wolco 7y ago

chrome or edge.. Did you forget to include firefox. It isn't an unreasonable ask to support firefox. Many vendors are asking for it these days.

Jetrel 7y ago
To Firefox's credit, generally you don't need to. Almost everything I work with, outside of bleeding-edge experimental features, ends up in a setup where I write something for chrome and it works flawlessly in Firefox. And safari. It's only IE where solidly "old, tried and true" browser features end up breaking down in bizarre and interesting ways. The only reason we have this big conversation about "supporting" different browsers is because one single holdout has been that bad for so long. And to even MS's credit, I think a large part of that has been the fact that they're not "evergreen" (i.e forcing all users to be on the current version). They've always been doomed by the fact that "what they're judged on" isn't their current work, but is usually the version that's _almost a decade_ out of date.
jabroni_salad 7y ago
We have GPOs for it and it is in our software center but no external vendor I know of specifies it as a hard requirement like they do chrome or IE. If I have to ticket a vendor for a website issue their call taker is going to ask if I'm using their favorite browser. desktop management is 20% tech and 80% bureaucracy.