I'm fairly confident this is because of IE8's lack of support for SVG which is used heavily for data visualization, mapping etc.
IE9+ has some sort of support for SVG while IE7 and IE8 implement VML. :-/
Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
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Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Android users ought to just avoid the Android browser and use Chrome or Dolphin. I don't even understand why there is an Android browser. Android browser also has trouble with updating SSL cert authority information, and it's got issues with its touch implementation.
Android users on Android 2.3 can't use Chrome and Dolphin uses the native browser engine. I think Firefox Mobile would be your only option, but the performance has to be awful.
Dolphin switched to its own browser engine, at least on Android.
http://dolphin.com/dolphin-browser-is-the-fastest-html5-mobi...
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#23Google Analytics' reporting interface... Your visitors who haven't upgraded their browser will see have their page views collected and reported on.
This is the most important comment, the title is slightly misleading
> "As a note, we’ll of course continue to measure traffic from IE8 browsers to your website."
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#24"That last point is very important, given that IE8 is still the world’s most popular browser."
Note that this is really not true. If you look at various[1] global browsers stats pages, you'll notice that NetApplications (where the author is getting his's numbers from) is the only one that puts IE at the top. If you look at the other, and based on my own stats, this just isnn't the case, and IE8 is not the most popular browser in the world, not by far.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum...
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#25This is of course only a good thing, making huge parts of the web essentially unusable for people that are still stuck on ancient browsers is probably one of the only ways to get them to upgrade.
This only makes the Google Analytics dashboard unusable. It's not going to break sites that just use GA's tracking code.
Although, maybe breaking almost every site on the web for IE lte 9 isn't such a bad idea...
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#26"That last point is very important, given that IE8 is still the world’s most popular browser." Note that this is really not true. If you look at various[1] global browsers stats pages, you'll notice that NetApplications (where the author is getting his's numbers from) is the only one that puts IE at the top. If you look at the other, and based on my own stats, this just isnn't the case, and IE8 is not the most popula…
I trust what google says about browser usage over any other stat counter.If they still think IE8 is popular it must be, even if it pisses off webdevs.
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#27"That last point is very important, given that IE8 is still the world’s most popular browser." Note that this is really not true. If you look at various[1] global browsers stats pages, you'll notice that NetApplications (where the author is getting his's numbers from) is the only one that puts IE at the top. If you look at the other, and based on my own stats, this just isnn't the case, and IE8 is not the most popula…
I trust what google says about browser usage over any other stat counter.If they still think IE8 is popular it must be, even if it pisses off webdevs.
Where did Google say that IE8 is popular still?
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#28Why do people still use NetApplications as a source? It's obviously incredibly inaccurate.
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#29For those who aren't aware, IE8 doesn't support ECMAscript 5, which includes useful functions, such as: Array.prototype.map and Object.keys. The alternative to this is to use something like jquery's implementation of map. Anyway, this is why IE8 in particular is a cutoff for compatibility. A lot of startups are not building their sites to be compatible with IE8.
So javascript is getting built in support for map() before java gets it? :(
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#30I wonder what the corporate adoption of Win7+ is at this point?
Abandoning IE8 for various services will slowly start to hurt Microsoft as it forces people into using (probably) Chrome, or if not, FireFox. Especially once you are using Chrome, the lure of Google's ecosystem starts to become irresistable, and as Chrome use itself grows, Chrome as a platform becomes more and more attractive.
Of course this move in itself is irrelevant to that because it only affects such a tiny percentage of people. But as you add up a lot of niche services it will start to have a significant impact, I think.