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Post by crisnoble »

valarauca1 wrote: post #38
taspeotis wrote: post #10

> 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?

Yes, just like your car will last you 20 years. If you drive a car from 1994 you don't expect to be able to drive 90 mph or offroad without running into major issues. Should cities keep their infrastructure backwards compatible for people with old cars?

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Post by craigching »

So you upgrade their computers and ... they're stuck with IE8! :p

In all seriousness, I think it's better and more cost effective to have them switch to a better browser (FF, Chrome and even IE11). There are a lot of Win7 companies that still insist on IE8 as their browser of choice and that costs a lot to support as well, speaking from experience.

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Post by DrStalker »

deevus wrote: post #33

I 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. Fo…

I've found asking up front what level of IE6 support was needed and then listing it as a separate line item in a quote is a good way to get out of supporting it, or at least move from "must be pixel perfect!" to "the main functionality has to work"

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Post by hackmiester »

crisnoble wrote: post #41
valarauca1 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes, just like your car will last you 20 years. If you drive a car from 1994 you don't expect to be able to drive 90 mph or offroad without running into major issues. Should cities keep their infrastructure backwards compatible for people with old cars?

It's apples and oranges. In 1994 people went over 80mph all the time, and they still do. If you maintain a car well, it will continue to be able to do that. By contrast, though... a PC perfectly maintained from 1994 until now would be hopeless in today's infrastructure.

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Post by stephen_g »

taspeotis wrote: post #10

> 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…

"If you're on IE7 you're probably on it because MegaCorp's Intranet Application '02 Enterprise Edition doesn't work on anything else."

This is what virtual machines are for...

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