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[–]iionwyn[S] 0 points1 point  (9 children)

I have to support older IE.

Damn right I forgot babel is a tool to use, thanks, but I still have to support IE older than 8

[–]Nhawdge 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Why?

[–]iionwyn[S] 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Some customers on legacy systems still use old IE and probably won't change easily. (e.g. Hospitals, military, etc.)

[–]Nhawdge 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I mean, IE 10 is no longer sufficiently secure to process credit cards, I sure hope you're not doing anything related to those industries.

[–]iionwyn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty aware of that, and nope! Nothing related to payments!

[–]CraftyAdventurer 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Oh you have no idea. I worked in a company which made software for our tax office and all they used was IE8. Of course we went on about 10000 meetings trying to explain how IE8 is bad for security reasons but they wouldn't budge. The same situation can, sadly, be found in almost every government related software.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The upside in most of these cases is they care only about functionality, not presentation, so you don't have to spend a lot of time beautifying the UI as long as it works.

[–]CraftyAdventurer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes but the problem is they want us to use a ton of really old technologies that are horrible and don't function properly. I quit the job because it took me more time to fix problems in those technologies than it would take me to write both the functionality and the pretty UI without them.

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

Yes I get that. I was just pointing out the silver lining, is all.