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by ramanujam
4991 days ago
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First of all, this article is from Oct 2009. I missed the date at the top and i scrolled up after reading this line. > Google Wave team also chose to drop Internet Explorer support 3 years is a significantly long period of time in the browser world and Chrome was a 1 yr old browser and there was no IE9. Also, there was no windows phone 7. Once in a few months, an article pops up telling how a startup saved $100k by not supporting IE or how hundreds of developer hours were saved by not caring about the things that IE failed to render properly. It narrows down to the number of users an app or service has and also the demographics of the users. If you are building a hipster social network or a video post processing tool, ignoring IE is going to save you significant time since it can be assumed that a good percentage of the users are going to be on macs using the latest browsers. On the other hand, if you are catering to e-commerce, finance or any other common industry even thinking about ignoring IE isn't wise at this point. With jQuery and graceful degradation, fixing the major issues shouldn't be really hard. PS: Can just-launched-starup ignore IE for their app? Probably. Can Pinterest ignore IE8? Of course not. Even if it is 10% of their user base (I bet it will way more), they will be ignoring a few hundred thousand or may be a few million users! |
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