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If your website does not load correctly with IE8, which has the largest market share in the IE group and is also about 20%-30% of all internet browsers, this is

If your website does not load correctly with IE8, which has the largest market share in the IE group and is also about 20%-30% of all internet browsers, this is a failure, especially if there is no technical reason for this to be.

rnicholson 15y ago
Kind of harsh to call it "a failure" because it doesn't load in IE8. It loads fine in IE9 btw.
smspence 15y ago
It's called a "weekend project", not "this is a rock-solid, time-tested piece of software that works in absolutely every browser perfectly". If you would like to help out, go ahead and download the source and make the necessary modifications to make it compatible with IE8.
- powertower 15y ago
  > not "this is a rock-solid, time-tested piece of software that works in absolutely every browser perfectly". I wouldn't and didn't say that. Just that I'd expect it to work with the most common browser out there.
  - eCa 15y ago
    It may be the most used single browser version, but I'd put in the 25±10% range of visitors so it is not used by a majority of users. That said, it couldn't be used on a general purpose web site without at least some fallbacks.
  - cheald 15y ago
    Or you could look at it the other way around and say that this demo works for ~85% of the web already. For the record, Chrome 16 holds the title of "Browser with the single largest piece of marketshare for vendor/version combo" with 30.5% as of Jan 2012. It works dandy in there. So yeah, it works just fine with the most common browser out there. IE8 was released nearly three years ago. By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions. Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point.
    - powertower 15y ago
      > For the record, Chrome 16 holds the title... I was under the impression that Chrome auto-updates, and hence Chrome 16 is really all the "Current stable release" versions of Chrome. So might as well compare it to IE9 and IE8 combined. http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php > By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions. I was also under the impression that Chrome got rid of meaningful "major" releases some time ago in favor of non-meaningful "major" releases. "Google Chrome's Version Number Is Meaningless" http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-chromes-version-number-is.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-chromes-vers... > Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point. Getting some text to align on a website for a significant browser segment is not ridiculous to me at all.

rnicholson 15y ago

Kind of harsh to call it "a failure" because it doesn't load in IE8. It loads fine in IE9 btw.

smspence 15y ago

It's called a "weekend project", not "this is a rock-solid, time-tested piece of software that works in absolutely every browser perfectly". If you would like to help out, go ahead and download the source and make the necessary modifications to make it compatible with IE8.

powertower 15y ago
> not "this is a rock-solid, time-tested piece of software that works in absolutely every browser perfectly". I wouldn't and didn't say that. Just that I'd expect it to work with the most common browser out there.
- eCa 15y ago
  It may be the most used single browser version, but I'd put in the 25±10% range of visitors so it is not used by a majority of users. That said, it couldn't be used on a general purpose web site without at least some fallbacks.
- cheald 15y ago
  Or you could look at it the other way around and say that this demo works for ~85% of the web already. For the record, Chrome 16 holds the title of "Browser with the single largest piece of marketshare for vendor/version combo" with 30.5% as of Jan 2012. It works dandy in there. So yeah, it works just fine with the most common browser out there. IE8 was released nearly three years ago. By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions. Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point.
  - powertower 15y ago
    > For the record, Chrome 16 holds the title... I was under the impression that Chrome auto-updates, and hence Chrome 16 is really all the "Current stable release" versions of Chrome. So might as well compare it to IE9 and IE8 combined. http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php > By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions. I was also under the impression that Chrome got rid of meaningful "major" releases some time ago in favor of non-meaningful "major" releases. "Google Chrome's Version Number Is Meaningless" http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-chromes-version-number-is.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-chromes-vers... > Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point. Getting some text to align on a website for a significant browser segment is not ridiculous to me at all.