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Posted by remimatia
remimatia
2,871 Points

Do you still give support to IE7 and IE8 ??

Hello Do you still worry about how a webpage looks in Internet explorer 8- ??

Sometimes is difficult to keep using javascript hacks, extra files, etc. You have to set aside a lot of time to do testing. In some cases I just forget about the goodies of CSS3 or HTML5, and just keep using images, for shadows or transparencies, for example.

CSS3 looks great in modern browsers, but is disapponting when you try it in IE8-

Even the treehouse site, looks weird in IE8-

So what do you think??

thanks

3 Answers

Oliver Hough
Oliver Hough
6,153 Points

I'd say yes it is unfortunately still important to support old browsers to an extent but I wouldn't let that stop you from using new CSS3 features etc. You can use IE8 and below specific style sheets etc to solve any major problems with how the site displays (my pet hate, CSS border-radius). Also there are tools such as http://modernizr.com/ which will attempt to detect which features are available on the browser and allow you to style accordingly.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Remi Fx - There's really only one thing that should dictate which browsers you support, their percentage of market share.

Given IE7 is at about 0.5% of global market share I think it makes sense to drop support for it. On the other hand given IE8 has about 8.5% of global market share, it's very important for sites to gracefully degrade when viewed in IE8.

source: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-ww-monthly-201205-201305

Dave Campbell
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Dave Campbell
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Dave Campbell
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Dave Campbell
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I'd personally love to be able to drop older browser support, however it isn't that simple, so I deal with this on a client or job to job basis by looking at the analytics.

If the users are still using IE7 then you will need to accomodate this really.

A lot of businesses will have their staff machines locked down for example and wont have updated to newer versions of Windows or IE so here would be a case for supporting the older browsers.