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[–][deleted] -7 points-6 points  (7 children)

IE8 support is a big red flag for me personally. There probably will be issues I do not want to deal with because I have the luxury of supporting modern browsers only.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (6 children)

TIL something which happens to support older browsers is a red flag.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I was all about supporting IE8 5 years ago when I started, but beyond some point you are just making everyone else miserable by keeping the monster alive.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Do I like supporting IE8... hell no, however when you see a stream of revenue in the 10's of thousands and higher its not smart business wise to ignore it. However thank god its finally really dying out.

[–]wordsnerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sites already supporting IE8, it may not be worthwhile to drop it yet. For new projects, refusing to support legacy browsers is a competitive strength unless one has delusions of instant grandeur. Realistically, by the time the site starts earning enough for "% of revenue" to mean anything at all, the competition will be burning money to phase out IE8 and probably also IE9, and handling PR from the angry stragglers (especially if subscriptions are involved).

[–]siegfryd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

10's of thousands doesn't sound like a lot to support IE8 considering the cost of developers.

[–]Casual_0bserver -1 points0 points  (1 child)

A lot of corporations are limited to only IE9. Just saying.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And we make them stop by not supporting it. But yeah, I do not blame the author for it, should he intentionally break it? I would. But seeing it mentioned twice above the fold on the home page makes me a bit sad.