Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by fosk » Fri, Dec 30, 2011, 9:06 PM UTC

Facebook no longer supports IE7
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Re: Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by synae » Fri, Dec 30, 2011, 10:37 PM UTC

Funny how the news is expressed as "use the old, unsupported version of the site with an old, unsupported version of a browser".

Re: Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by 0x0 » Fri, Dec 30, 2011, 10:43 PM UTC

What's the point of writing that developer toolbar user-agent switch comment? Does setting the UA to IE7 cause the glitches? Because it surely won't change Safari's webkit engine into any sort of IE7 compatibility mode. So are FB conditionally sending broken CSS to IE7?

Re: Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by mzarate06 » Fri, Dec 30, 2011, 10:50 PM UTC

Not a very accurate title. It looks like most of Facebook still works fine w/IE 7, it's just the Timeline that's affected. For example, I can login, view a friend's profile, view my news feed, like something, make a wall post, play a game ... all fine in IE 7. And, the experience is very similar, if not entirely, to that of doing the same in Firefox 9.

Should it have been entirely true, this would have been a great step for the web, even if only a small one.

Re: Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by johnbender » Fri, Dec 30, 2011, 10:50 PM UTC

0x0 wrote: post #3

What's the point of writing that developer toolbar user-agent switch comment? Does setting the UA to IE7 cause the glitches? Because it surely won't change Safari's webkit engine into any sort of IE7 compatibility mode. So are FB conditionally sending broken CSS to IE7?

It appears that FB is using UA sniffing (server side or otherwise) and not conditional comments, or something else rendering engine specific, to alter the page.

Re: Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by jonursenbach » Fri, Dec 30, 2011, 11:05 PM UTC

mzarate06 wrote: post #4

Not a very accurate title. It looks like most of Facebook still works fine w/IE 7, it's just the Timeline that's affected. For example, I can login, view a friend's profile, view my news feed, like something, make a wall post, play a game ... all fine in IE 7. And, the experience is very similar, if not entirely, to that of doing the same in Firefox 9. Should it have been entirely true, this would have been a great s…

I think you're confusing "supports" with "works". Facebook may work under IE7, but they aren't supporting it anymore. Any new stuff that they do, don't expect it to work in IE7.

Re: Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 30, 2011, 11:26 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by suyash » Fri, Dec 30, 2011, 11:48 PM UTC

I didn't even knew how the author changed User Agent to be IE 7 from Safari..wonder how accurate it is to real IE 7.

Re: Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by bryanh » Sat, Dec 31, 2011, 1:06 AM UTC

suyash wrote: post #8

I didn't even knew how the author changed User Agent to be IE 7 from Safari..wonder how accurate it is to real IE 7.

Not at all, webkit still renders everything. Presumably Facebook is delivering different html/css based on the spoofed user agent.

Re: Facebook no longer supports IE7

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Post by twerth » Sat, Dec 31, 2011, 1:45 AM UTC

I'm only supporting IE8 and above now. The numbers for IE6 and IE7 are too small to care about anymore. At least for my demographic.