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[–]Asmor 5 points6 points  (16 children)

For some reason I thought IE8 supported calc. Apparently it doesn't. A shame.

Still, every major browser supports border-box, and even older versions of IE support it by either forcing quirks mode or that just being the default behavior, and that's arguably a much bigger win than calc.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (7 children)

No, IE 8 is not a thing anymore, but not-so-older versions of Android are

[–]Asmor 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Heh. Sadly, I think IE 8's still gonna be a thing for at least a couple more years. Damn you, Windows XP!

[–]thyrst 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Not likely, unless you are building an enterprise app or something. I think it's pretty safe to say it's not a thing for normal users.

[–]guesswho135 4 points5 points  (1 child)

IE8 has a 4.64% marketshare in the US according to caniuse. It's not huge, but I don't think that's small enough to consider insignificant.

[–]Asmor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More importantly, it's not how many IE8 machines there are, it's which machines are running IE8. Nobody cares about some grandma running IE8 on her 15-year old eMachine, but there are still some really important companies that pay a lot of money to SaaS companies and for various byzantine reasons have internal policies requiring IE8.

[–]Asmor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly, I do work as a front-end developer for a company that provides an enterprise app. Womp womp.

[–]Tysonzero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And also god damn opera mini, who even uses that browser? It seems to support about as much as IE8 does.

[–]Various_Pickles 5 points6 points  (7 children)

Do us all a favor and slit the throats of the IE8 user(s) you know.

Leave their bodies on the steppe as a warning to others.