[mrweasel]

>in the healthcare space where IE11 is the preferred browser

Do you know why that is?

I noticed that there are prominent links to a Korean and Japanese version, presumably because Internet Explorer is still used to a large extend in those two countries. Korea had some crypto stuff that only worked in IE, but that was years ago. Why haven't those markets moved on more modern browsers?

[otterpro]

I worked at a hospital about 10 years ago, and at that time only IE was available on our PC. PC workstation was locked down for security reason and users were not allowed to install 3rd party software without approval (including chrome, etc). Also Chrome's browser extensions were security concerns (esp for medical records, HIPPA regulations, etc) It was also a time when IE was used in enterprise for mostly legacy web app that was written long ago. We were also using command line apps (TUI-based) at that time, mostly for nurse and doctors, but we were migrating to the fancy web apps.

As for Korea, IE was mostly for ActiveX, but now most Korean website supports modern browsers ie Chrome.

[ocdtrekkie]

> users were not allowed to install 3rd party software without approval (including chrome, etc)

This should be, and always should be, the case. Chrome is such a bad actor in allowing userspace install, we mark it as malware to prohibit unauthorized installation. Chrome Enterprise policies don't seem to be able to disable this, marking it as malware is the only way out...

That said, we offer two modern browsers to everyone in our environment, Edge and Firefox.

[ampdepolymerase]

Do modern healthcare TUIs support UTF-8?

[wrs]

Same as anywhere else, I suppose: because changing it costs time/money and has no obvious value. In regulated areas like health care there can also be a recertification or audit support cost if you change something.