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IE Browser Support

Web developers discuss challenges with supporting various Internet Explorer versions, frustrations with older ones like IE8-9, and hopes for dropping legacy support in favor of newer browsers.

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Sample Comments

ygra • Feb 19, 2013 • View on HN

Unless my eyes are strange that page says it's supported on IE.

DjDarkman • Sep 15, 2010 • View on HN

It's useless unless they stop supporting older IE versions...

anewaccountname • Mar 9, 2008 • View on HN

They support Internet Explorer.

XLcommerce • Mar 5, 2012 • View on HN

lucky you.. you don't have to support anything below ie9. Not everyone has that luxury.

dbbk • Dec 19, 2019 • View on HN

It's only IE 11 that doesn't support it, you can probably drop that now depending on your customer base.

ceejayoz • May 28, 2013 • View on HN

IE 7-9 are still far more prevalent than IE 10. Most IE users will be in a variant without support.

o_m • Mar 29, 2022 • View on HN

They are dropping IE support with this version

jtheory • Jul 22, 2014 • View on HN

Update on IE support -- for the moment it seems to support IE 11 only.

regularfry • May 17, 2018 • View on HN

Because we have to support IE 11.

dpark • May 25, 2012 • View on HN

They might need to support recent versions of IE.