[nevi-me]

IE8 is holding the rest of us back. Reality is that most usage of IE8 comes from corporate users who are stuck on such IE8. We can't keep supporting legacy browsers forever. The solution that has been working is to warn the user that their browser is not officially supported, and that things will break.

One of the banks that I consult with allow users to install the corporately limited version of Chrome, it's sometimes 10 or more versions behind latest stable, but it's better than IE8.

Bootstrap, Font-Awesome, jQuery are dropping IEx because it's a burden to maintain that for a small subset of users. We should all do the same.

[Killswitch]

I personally follow Google in what I support unless the project I am working on is specifically for older browsers.

My idea is if Google who owns a huge market share of the web can drop it, it's safe to say so can I.