Ask HN: Do you support IE8?

Yep, and it's about as painful as you might expect.

Unfortunately we have a number of clients using our product (particularly government) which still expect it to be supported :(

IE9+. Anything under, I tell my clients sorry cannot guarantee.

I define a Modern Browser as: any browser with the ability to self-update to the latest version. These are the browsers most commonly used, and when a security vulnerability comes out they are on top of things. These all enjoy good HTML and CSS support, so I'm able to build what I need in a way that supports them all equally. If you come to me with a bug in a modern browser that's my bad - they should all be supported.

The second group of browsers are called Legacy Browsers: any browser which is isolated with no automatic upgrade path. This includes IE 8, 7, 6 as well as any legacy version of any other browser that didn't stay on the latest version. If you don't ask/pay for legacy support then I will design it using modern best practices and it will likely work well down to IE9.

For legacy support, I will support whatever browsers you wish at the normal hourly rate. If IE6 support is dear to you, and worth the cost I will happily dust off the ten-year-old techniques and give you the support you desire.

Keep in mind that IE8 doesn't include support for CSS @media queries, so most forms of responsive page layout will be impossible without the use of a polyfill! I think due to this, many sites that think they support IE8 don't actually render very well.