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How do you overcome IE and all its faults?

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Ricardo Diaz from the Facebook forum asks, "How do you overcome IE and all its faults?"

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    [treehouse, Teacher Q&A]

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    [How do you overcome IE and all its faults?]

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    I think IE is starting to catch up to what you'd call

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    alternative browsers--or not even really alternative now.

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    I just call them modern browsers.

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    [answer by Nick Pettit] But I would always just develop to the standard first

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    and then worry about

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    trying to overcome any kind of bugs with IE,

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    whether it's display issues or some sort of weird JavaScript error.

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    I really wouldn't worry about Internet Explorer up front

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    because typically that's just going to slow you down.

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    Frankly, like I said, Internet Explorer

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    doesn't represent as large of a market

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    as it once did.

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    It's still very important, and you should definitely make your site work with Internet Explorer,

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    but I always leave that until the end of the process.

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    [answer by Allison Grayce]

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    I think the thing to keep in mind with IE is just to kind of

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    accept it from the very beginning

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    and kind of make it a part of your process to always have IE open.

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    Instead of waiting until the very end when you're about to launch your website

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    to test in IE, just kind of test as you go--

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    to debug as you go.

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    [answer by Jim Hoskins] Raw power.

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    It's just practice.

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    You deal with IE for so long and eventually you start understanding

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    all the things that it can't do.

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    You just kind of work that into your model of how you build things.

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    It's kind of sad because then you start thinking in terms of

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    things that you'd like to be able to do, but you know you just can't

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    unless you just say IE is going to get out of here.

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    It's difficult at first, but if you spend enough time with it,

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    you'll learn the ins and outs and you'll just

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    start thinking in the IE model of

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    you can't really make it that good.

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    You don't. Just run away. [laughter]

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    [answer by Amit Bijlani]

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    You have to deal with it.

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    It's out there, and there's a lot of people still using IE.

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    It's getting better. IE9 is way better than what 6 was and 7 was.

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    And 10 is supposedly even better.

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    Of course, Microsoft is also poking fun at themselves

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    and how bad the previous versions of the browser were.

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    In addition, you have a lot of tools out there

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    that can help you make your web app

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    more friendly with IE.

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    There is Browser Shot, BrowserStack.

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    That helps you test your

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    website in different versions of IE.

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    And then there are things like Modernizr that help you

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    check what capabilities are available in the browser.

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    There's a whole slew of Frameworks and stuff like that.

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    So just be patient and do the work.

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