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Re: IE7 users, we need to talk…

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Post by thejosh »

SDGT wrote: post #4
protocow wrote: post #3

Well done. But many IE7 and IE8 users aren't by choice. They are employees at large companies with no ability to upgrade their corporate computers.

One might ask why they're looking for nursing jobs at work then.

People even use their current work emails for job applications.

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Post by taspeotis »

iNate2000 wrote: post #8
protocow wrote: post #3

Well done. But many IE7 and IE8 users aren't by choice. They are employees at large companies with no ability to upgrade their corporate computers.

True enough - but it sounds like the site making the offer is a job-board.

And hospitals post job offers for nurses from their fleet of home PCs, right?

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Post by taspeotis »

SDGT wrote: post #4
protocow wrote: post #3

Well done. But many IE7 and IE8 users aren't by choice. They are employees at large companies with no ability to upgrade their corporate computers.

One might ask why they're looking for nursing jobs at work then.

One might ask how those job offers end up on the site. Other unemployed nurses, or hospitals?

Re: IE7 users, we need to talk…

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Post by knassy »

scrabble wrote: post #2

Supporting IE7 is the worst part of my day job. I end up building new modules in Firefox, making sure they look the same in Chrome, then testing IE7. Then I have to fix all the stuff broken in IE7 and ensure it still looks good on the modern browsers. My ultimate goal though is for it to be presentable in IE7 with a top notch experience in anything newer, makes it a little easier.

> My ultimate goal though is for it to be presentable in IE7 with a top notch experience in anything newer, makes it a little easier.

I think that's the exact right attitude.

I work in an environment that supports back to IE7 and I really get a kick out of creating robust solutions that work in crappy or older browsers.

Admittedly I work with web sites, or simple applications, rather than full on web applications, but I find starting with sensible HTML/CSS/JS and using progressive enhancement usually gets me 95% of the way there.

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Post by vinceguidry »

veesahni wrote: post #7
protocow wrote: post #3

Well done. But many IE7 and IE8 users aren't by choice. They are employees at large companies with no ability to upgrade their corporate computers.

Do these corporations not have security issues with these old browsers?

You're assuming corporations take security seriously.

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Post by taspeotis »

cnp wrote: post #16

I'm surprised you didn't just go with IE9 as the cutoff? Why?

I was saddled with supporting IE8 for a while because our biggest customer (of one of our products) was using it. They made up ~4% of traffic before they finally moved to Win7+IE11.

Money talks.

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Post by vinceguidry »

SDGT wrote: post #4
protocow wrote: post #3

Well done. But many IE7 and IE8 users aren't by choice. They are employees at large companies with no ability to upgrade their corporate computers.

One might ask why they're looking for nursing jobs at work then.

Maybe they don't have computers at home.

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Post by malandrew »

protocow wrote: post #3

Well done. But many IE7 and IE8 users aren't by choice. They are employees at large companies with no ability to upgrade their corporate computers.

I'm surprised no one has yet created a database where people can anonymously submit ranges of IPs where a lot of users are on IE7 and other older browsers. This would paint a big ol' bullseye on those organizations since it highlights them as easy targets for exploits that target older browsers.
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