Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
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Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
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Re: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
#2This may be schadenfreude, but as someone who's been around the web a long time, it really tickles me to see Microsoft have to fake their user agent string to get around an arbitrary browser restriction. Other browsers used to fake the IE user agent string. I suppose it's full circle since IE originally had to pose as Netscape's browser (Mozilla compatible).
Re: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
#3The problem is, IE 9 and 10 are not everywhere. I know for certain that my school (and, I'd be willing to wager, many businesses) only deploys IE 7 and 8. IE 6 still isn't dead, despite Microsoft publicly encouraging migration. Until Microsoft gets IE 9 and 10 adoption up, supporting Internet Explorer is tricky.
Re: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
#4Just a guess, but the inclusion of -ms prefixes indicate the use of a CSS preprocessor and some off-the-shelf mixin libraries for all the fancy crap.
Re: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
#5The problem is, IE 9 and 10 are not everywhere. I know for certain that my school (and, I'd be willing to wager, many businesses) only deploys IE 7 and 8. IE 6 still isn't dead, despite Microsoft publicly encouraging migration. Until Microsoft gets IE 9 and 10 adoption up, supporting Internet Explorer is tricky.
The problem really is that they are lumping ALL IE users into one "incompatible bucket" irregardless of the version and features supported.
There's no need to get religious here, just support the browsers that have the features your web app needs.
Re: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
#6The site happening to work is not the same thing as support. Trust me.
Re: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
#7The problem is, IE 9 and 10 are not everywhere. I know for certain that my school (and, I'd be willing to wager, many businesses) only deploys IE 7 and 8. IE 6 still isn't dead, despite Microsoft publicly encouraging migration. Until Microsoft gets IE 9 and 10 adoption up, supporting Internet Explorer is tricky.
Irrelevant. Is not like that site works perfectly on initial release of chrome
Re: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
#8tl;dr the site works with IE9 and IE10.
I find the style of writing of this post extremely obnoxious, was it really necessary to say the exact same thing with slightly different order in the words over and over? If your post is to be short because there's not a lot to say, don't extend it unnecessarily, get to the point, move on.
Re: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
#9The site happening to work is not the same thing as support. Trust me.
That is quite true, but ultimately irrelevant to the article's point, which is that they are seemingly locking users out just for the heck of it.
Re: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
#10The problem is, IE 9 and 10 are not everywhere. I know for certain that my school (and, I'd be willing to wager, many businesses) only deploys IE 7 and 8. IE 6 still isn't dead, despite Microsoft publicly encouraging migration. Until Microsoft gets IE 9 and 10 adoption up, supporting Internet Explorer is tricky.
Irrelevant. Is not like that site works perfectly on initial release of chrome
Hmm, how many people are on the initial release of chrome? Apples and oranges.