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I would say that we don't mind because we understand that there are many features on "modern browsers" that are not available on IE 9 and below, but yet are web

by ehsanu1 14y ago

I would say that we don't mind because we understand that there are many features on "modern browsers" that are not available on IE 9 and below, but yet are web standards (ok, not all the time). Hackers also tend not to use IE, so that also helps explain it. It really only sucks for general consumer-facing apps to not support a large variety of browsers. Otherwise, for specific apps with more tech-savvy users, just supporting a couple of modern browsers is just fine IMO.

harisenbon 14y ago
The problem is that this is the same argument about why we had the "only supports ie6" way back in the day (and ie5.5 before that). While I don't think that webkit will stagnate the way ie did, it's really amusing to see the webdev community repeating the exact same arguments supporting webkit-only sites that we were about ie5-only sites 12 years ago.