Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
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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
#2http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/09/supporting-modern-brow...
"As a note, we’ll of course continue to measure traffic from IE8 browsers to your website."
That's all I need google. Thanks.
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#3This 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.
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#4This 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.
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Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#5This 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.
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This has nothing to do with tracking, it's the dashboard that won't support IE8.
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#6For 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.
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#7Google Analytics' reporting interface... Your visitors who haven't upgraded their browser will see have their page views collected and reported on.
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#8This 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.
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#9Praised be lord of all code and such. I am not against IE8 - qualitatively it dwarfed IE6/7, but there are still way to many issues with supporting it. I am speaking from experience - I developed somewhat simple portal with a lot of AJAX/interactive elements. Getting all features to work on Chrome/Firefox was a charm, IE8 was harder. In the end I only managed to support IE9 and above.
Re: Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013
#10This is interesting, because according the analytics I have access to, large institutions in my field (which is large in itself) seem to have standardized on IE8. I guess a lot of these shops went from IE6 to IE8, skipping 7 entirely. Its funny how long IE8 is sticking around and I wonder if its going to be the new "IE6" for some time.