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The repeated "All browsers except Internet Explorer" with regard to support is exactly why a lot of these solutions are in javascript still for a lot of sites.
by sillyquiet 5y ago
The repeated "All browsers except Internet Explorer" with regard to support is exactly why a lot of these solutions are in javascript still for a lot of sites.
- netr0ute 5y agoIs Internet Explorer still that popular to require extra support?
- mod 5y ago3.37% (3rd most popular) https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
- mumblemumble 5y agoI see Edge at 3.37% and IE at 0.62% in that chart.
- sillyquiet 5y agoSome industries (government, hospitality, health care, some travel) have proportionally more IE users unfortunately than the general population
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- blacktriangle 5y agoDepending on your market, it's not about the raw popularity. If you are selling to business, many of them are running ERP systems that depend on IE11 and will never be updated. However the knowledge that IE sucks is well established outside of developers at this point. We sell into business and only officially support Chrome and Safari. When people run into common issues we tell them to switch from IE to Chrome, and 90% of the time they respond as if they screwed up not us, and that they should have thought to try in the non-sucky browser.
- KMnO4 5y agoI don't believe that's a valid excuse in 2021. In 2017? Sure -- maybe. Even complete luddites don't use IE anymore because it hasn't been the default browser for many, many years. While I agree there ARE some industries that have to support stupid old versions (eg government websites), any other product managers that think they'll be losing business by not supporting IE are misguided.
- sillyquiet 5y agoYeah, from personal experience any time I or anybody else tries to argue that supporting IE isn’t worth it any more, a PM will pull out traffic statistics and say ‘see, x% is still on IE, we can’t not support them’
- asddubs 5y agoaccording to caniuse it's less than a percent now. of course mileage may vary.
- sillyquiet 5y agoRight, like I noted elsewhere some industries have higher IE traffic, proportionally speaking
- not2b 5y agoIt used to be that many companies were stuck with IE because they bought complex products that only support IE (and an older version of IE at that) to manage their business with. Fortunately a lot of the worst of that stuff has gone away. But it's still out there (though in many cases the employees use IE only to talk to BogusLegacyProduct and use Chrome for everything else).
- shakna 5y agoAs an example, a school website I run support for on and off, and have done so for a number of years, still receives 18% of its traffic from IE8.
- datagram 5y agoI think pretty much all the things in the article are nice-to-haves that could simply just be omitted in IE. If you want a modern UX, use a modern browser.
- FriedrichN 5y agoI have stopped supporting IE a long time ago. Haven't heard any complaints. Granted I write business software and we simply tell them we don't support IE or Safari and people are fine with that. Most people use either Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. That being said, in some places IE is still enforced and you have no choice. I used to work at a place that enforced IE6 for the longest time, that was really awful.