1.22% of your users is probably like 1 person lol. Gj gaming hacker news to reach the many nurses that visit here.
1.22% of measured internet users use IE7.
The percentage of their customers that use IE7 could be very different.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
The newer browsers actually come with a lot of feature-induced security problems too. Microsoft continues to release security updates for IE7 so it might be better to use than a newer version of IE that could have HTML5 exploits.
That support ends on April 8 of this year: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsuppo...
On WinXP. You can run it on Server 2008 and receive security updates until 2020.
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#33I did a job recently where a legacy site needed to be upgraded to support mobile and tablets. After all the work was done I was informed that the site didn't work in ie6 (the default browser on their work machines) [1]
Luckily firefox was installed on their machines as well.
There was no way I was going back to fix it for ie6 on the budget I was allocated.
[1]: This constraint was never mentioned in initial talks. Fortunately it wasn't a massive deal in the end.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do these corporations not have security issues with these old browsers?
The newer browsers actually come with a lot of feature-induced security problems too. Microsoft continues to release security updates for IE7 so it might be better to use than a newer version of IE that could have HTML5 exploits.
IE8 and older also have things like HTML+TIME which is used in at least one real world exploit, to name just one thing.
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#35I'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.
You're lucky. One of our largest corporate customers upgraded to Win 7 and then DOWNGRADED to IE 8.
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#36Just to clear up your confusion guys.
Their clients are, as far as I can tell, the hospitals posting the jobs. Other users are mostly accessing the site on home computers, where they can almost certainly install some other browser which isn't as broken.
While in general a hospital may not have computers for this, their hiring manager is likely to be able to take an extra machine onto the network.
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#37Brings up an interesting point: cost of buying every customer with IE 7 a new computer Personally, I wouldn't have done an offer like that, as I would see no point in it (other than PR); but then again, I take a ruthless approach to upgrades
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#38> We are offering to buy a new computer with a modern browser for any of our customers who are stuck with IE7 Great PR, since practically no-one is going to take them up on the offer. If you're on IE7 you're probably on it because MegaCorp's Intranet Application '02 Enterprise Edition doesn't work on anything else. Meaning the new computer will break their LOB application. It's also possible it won't cost them any mo…
The other option is they are elderly or just don't care. They have that E-Machines Pentium 3 future proof 256MB of RAM Windows98 computer and they'll use it until they die, because shouldn't everything that costs over $1,000 dollars last for 20-30 years?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You're lucky. One of our largest corporate customers upgraded to Win 7 and then DOWNGRADED to IE 8.
I wonder how many of them will still be on IE8 by the time Win7 ends support in 2020.