This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday

Post by tracker1 » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 5:45 PM UTC

davidjgraph wrote: post #22

starquake wrote: post #8

Unfortunately this is not true: "Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical supports and security updates." The latest Internet Explorer version that runs on Windows Vista is Internet Explorer 9. So there will still be users using that... Windows Vista will have security updates till 2020.

Indeed, Vista being EOL 11 April 2017. It does mean that IE 10 is EOL, but not 9 for another 15 months.

Post by pvelagal » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #104

serge2k wrote: post #103

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> I don't need to 'cite' what I can see with my own eyes from the stats of my payment services provider You could be a liar, idiot, troll, or just really love IE. Why would anyone take your word for it.

> You could be a liar, idiot, troll, or just really love IE. You omitted the possibility that I might be right, am not an idiot, am not prone to either lying or trolling and absolutely detest IE (and have not used windows for a really very long time). > Why would anyone take your word for it. Please don't. Ignore me and whatever I write here on the off chance that there is a grain of truth in it and that it will make…

Post by vdaniuk » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

pvelagal wrote: post #123

jacquesm wrote: post #104

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> You could be a liar, idiot, troll, or just really love IE. You omitted the possibility that I might be right, am not an idiot, am not prone to either lying or trolling and absolutely detest IE (and have not used windows for a really very long time). > Why would anyone take your word for it. Please don't. Ignore me and whatever I write here on the off chance that there is a grain of truth in it and that it will make…

You are right. As much as people love to hate IE7/8 etc, they still help make a lot of money. (millions of $)

Post by draw_down » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #24

Given that IE may be the only widely-used browser that restrains web developers from going completely gung-ho with the fancy new stuff and creating even more sites that are just plain user-hostile and annoying (e.g. see the rise of superfluous SPAs and/or massive amounts of JS required to load simple static content, replacing sites that worked fine without), I fear that this will make casual browsing a worse experien…

Post by tracker1 » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC

kbutler wrote: post #90

chris_wot wrote: post #41

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If I was a developer, I'd carefully look at my referer logs and if only 15% of my user community was using IE 8-10, I'd just develop for IE 10. I would NOT warn the end users about needing to upgrade, I'd just let script errors occur and not release any compatibility fixes. I'd respond to support tickets explaining that there are bugs in their old version of IE and suggest they upgrade, or install Chrome or Firefox.…

> If I was a developer, It's pretty clear you're not a developer (or wouldn't be for long). There are two really bad decisions here: 1) You are driving away up to 15% of people who actually use your product. How much would you spend to acquire that many active users? It's easier to keep existing users than acquire new users. 2) Sending users through a ticket system for errors you could have prevented with a simple wa…