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I don't know either, but that's HN for you. meh It's a shame though, because the new IE isn't so bad, but while I have to develop for IE8 it's as good as usele
by mrbig4545 12y ago
I don't know either, but that's HN for you. meh
It's a shame though, because the new IE isn't so bad, but while I have to develop for IE8 it's as good as useless :(
- eli 12y agoThough the only people "stuck" on IE8 are XP users, which is indeed in rapid decline.
- mrbig4545 12y agoTrue, but after that I'll still be stuck on IE9, and the trend will continue.
- eli 12y agoI think that's called progress :)
- mrbig4545 12y agoIt would be much better progress if they could use the latest IE on whatever version of windows, rather than being forced develop for the lowest common denominator. Chrome has it right, it's always the latest version, and firefox is better than it used to be, but even then they didn't say "sorry, you need the latest windows to use this version, here, have this 4 year old version instead" It's ridiculous, and I can't think of one valid technical reason for it
- Klathmon 12y agoYou really can't think of a technical reason? Now I am not involved with IE at all, but i think it's safe to assume that they are most likely using new APIs which are specific to that platform. Now that's not an excuse, as they could write in fallbacks for platforms that don't have this, but it's definitely a valid reason.
- mrbig4545 12y agoYou really can't think of a technical reason? Now I am not involved with IE at all, but i think it's safe to assume that they are most likely using new APIs which are specific to that platform. Now that's not an excuse, as they could write in fallbacks for platforms that don't have this, but it's definitely a valid reason. it's a reason, but it's not a valid one. if it was then no one would write software that works on older windows versions.