Re: Drop old IE support?

+1 for bagging the old ie's

On 2/25/2013 10:11 AM, Chad Kieffer wrote:
> I have no qualms about dropping support for IE 6 or 7 and agree that we should continue to support 8 on XP.
>
> Anyone had a look at their Gallery (2 or 3) browser stats lately? What about browser version/adoption reports?
>
> On Feb 25, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Shad Laws <shad-xpYdmXCiSuZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey gang,
>>
>> Question 1: is it worth trying to maintain and test IE6 and IE7
>> support?  My personal vote is no.  I'm doing my best to check IE8 and
>> IE9 properly, but really don't want to attempt to fire up an IE6
>> installation for testing.
>>
>> Question 2: should we continue to support IE8?  My personal vote is
>> yes.  It's the latest IE an XP user could use, and I doubt I'm the
>> only one whose grandparents would be upset when they can't see photos
>> with their IE8-powered XP machines :-).
>>
>> Some background: as some of you may know, jQuery 2.0 is already in the
>> works and officially drops old IE support.  They define "old IE" as
>> anything pre-IE9.
>> http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/15/jquery-1-9-final-jquery-2-0-beta-migrate-final-released/
>>
>> I imagine in the not-too-distant future we'll be running jQuery 1.9
>> and 2.0 simultaneously, as suggested in the blog post above.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Take care,
>> Shad
>>
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