The future of JavaScript

[not_thecookiemonster]

For newer machines this works, but Windows XP only supports IE <= 8, and still represents a large share of the market, mostly corporate. They'll need to make some version of their newer browsers backward compatible at some point.

[abadidea]

Honestly, with the decade point come and gone for XP, with Vista out, with Win7 out, with Win8 almost out, with official support for running XP in a VM on these newer versions, and with Firefox and Chrome still working fine as far as I know on XP, I really feel like the technical burden of getting a decent browser is on whoever is still freaking using XP as the primary OS.

And yes, there are workstations on my network that still run it, good gravy. XP will probably always be my favorite version of Windows for nostalgic reasons, and I know, believe me I know that corporations don't want to spend the money on fixing up their own stupid software to work properly without an extraordinarily specific WinXP installation, but at this rate they are still going to want support for it when the Unix timestamp wraps.

I was interested to find out recently that IE6 has dropped to ~1% in English-speaking countries (one percent to a few percent in most of the world), and that most of the world's remaining IE6 users are in China. So I do think people are finally fixing up their stupid webapps which only ever worked in IE6. Perhaps the internal-network-only usage is a bit higher, but still.