I'm not intending to spread misinformation, and my comparison doesn't fall
apart. My reason for even mentioning jquery is to illustrate the trend of
influential stakeholders to move past support for old IE. Even my personal
example doesn't involve dropping IE8 cold turkey, but that the wind is c
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:57 AM
To: Code for Libraries Cc: Michael Schofield Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB]
A Responsibility to Encourage Better Browsers ( ? )
On 2/19/2013 10:22 AM, Michael Schofield wrote:
Now that Google, jQuery, and others will soon drop support for IE8
- its time to politel
Let's not forget that Google has a business case for dropping IE8 support.
Alerting folks to their old browser could (in SEO terms) turn into Chrome
conversions.
-Sean
On 2/19/13 12:22 PM, "Eric Phetteplace" wrote:
> I guess my general philosophy is that, for any browser with a decent market
>
I guess my general philosophy is that, for any browser with a decent market
share (>1% ish), it's my responsibility that the website *works*. It is not
my responsibility to make it look the same or run as fast in every browser,
which means IE 8 can get flat colors instead of gradients or a fallback
jQuery 2.x will support IE 9+ . Jonathan is correct that 1.x will continue
to support IE 6+ and there are techniques to deliver the older version of
jQuery to older browsers if the developer deems it necessary.
http://jquery.com/browser-support/
However, I think Michael is in good company in thin
11:57 AM
To: Code for Libraries
Cc: Michael Schofield
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] A Responsibility to Encourage Better Browsers ( ? )
On 2/19/2013 10:22 AM, Michael Schofield wrote:
> Now that Google, jQuery, and others will soon drop support for IE8 -
> its time to politely join-in and make luddite pat
Keep in mind that many old-IE users are there because their corporate/gov
entity requires it. Our entire univeristy health/hospital complex, for
example, was on IE6 until...last year, maybe?... because they had several
critical pieces of software written as active-x components that only ran in
IE6.
On 2/19/2013 10:22 AM, Michael Schofield wrote:
Now that Google, jQuery, and others will soon drop support for IE8 -
its time to politely join-in and make luddite patrons aware. IMHO,
anyway.
I would like a cite for this. I think you are mis-informed. It is a
misconception that JQuery is dropp
Hi everyone,
I'm having a change of heart.
It is kind of sacrilegious, especially if you-like me-evangelize mobile-first,
progressively enhanced web design, to throw alerts when users hit your site
using IE7 / IE8 that encourage upgrading or changing browsers. Especially in
libraries which ar
