[PinkPigeon]

What's everyone's opinion on simply forcing users of IE11 to upgrade / use a different browser?

I understand that one should aim for a certain level of backward compatibility, but when does the time come to drop IE11 support for good?

Especially as a smaller webdev-shop, how would one even come up with the resources to maintain that level of compatibility? Eventually there is a trade-off where one may end up losing a (hopefully reasonably small) percentage of customers in exchange for focusing on the experience of those customers who are more up to date, but it's a tricky decision to make.

[detaro]

IMHO totally depends on what you are doing and who your users are. Generally going for graceful degradation should keep a lot of stuff usable for outdated browsers, even if not full fidelity/pretty, and that often should be enough. If you have lots of IE11 users for whatever reason (i.e. I believe in some countries rates are a lot higher) it might be worth the effort to make it better for them. If you ship an internal app for a company that rolls out a newer standard browser everywhere, target that.