Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub

Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by buckbova on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:33PM (#12146556)

Interesting but does it matter? Commented out anyway.

  <!--[if lt IE 9]>
  <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
  <![endif]-->

Edit:

I know it's only commented out for > ie8. But right now, that's nearly everyone. And I personally still write ie8 compatible code for what it's worth. Stuck on old jquery, old angular, all sorts of shims, etc.

Not saying it is the definitive truth but w3schools puts it at 0.1% < ie9.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp

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Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by luhn on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:53PM (#12146690)

W3School's browser usage stats only reflects traffic on their site, which is a heavily biased sample. The best source I've found for browser stats is gs.statcounter.com, which puts IE8 usage at a bit over 1%.

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Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by joshstrange on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:35PM (#12146567)

It's only commented out for non-IE browsers and IE versions >= IE 9. See http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

Edit: Fixing logic

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Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by matthewbauer on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:01PM (#12146735)

It's the other way around: it's only enabled for < IE 9.

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Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by joshstrange on Friday July 22, 2016 @06:17PM (#12147170)

That's what I meant to say haha, I got distracted mid-comment and forgot I was saying it was commented out.

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Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by chipperyman573 on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:49PM (#12146658)

The w3schools data is most likely flawed as the majority of people accessing it are WebDevs who would not be using lt IE 9

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Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by nathancahill on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:52PM (#12146680)

You write IE8 code and don't recognize <!--[if lt IE 9]> ?

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Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by buckbova on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:57PM (#12146709)

Of course I recognize it. What I'm inferring is ie8 is near extinction (I hope) and it’s just comments now.

I've been writing software used in the medical field. And apparently they have a hard time letting go of ie8 and my team hasn't been given the thumbs up to forget about ie8 yet.

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