Re:Our tiny jQuery/Bootstrap rich text editor is now open-so...
by dspillett on Monday April 08, 2013 @07:14AM
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> Getting people to change that is tantamount to saying, we don't need to you as a customer.
In many cases supporting legacy IE is more hassle than it is worth, so people genuinely don't need IE8 users as customers.
Unfortunately IE8 came with Widnows 7 so is supported as long as that is which IIRC is until 2020 (for the extended support period). Given how long it took out corporate clients to upgrade from IE6 to IE8 (some only just have) if I don't change jobs I'm going to be supporting IE8 in our applications for the next seven years at least, but many people do have the luxury of being able to say "sorry, I don't have time to be supporting that" especially when they are giving their time/effort for no financial (or similar) gain (I'm at least paid to deal with legacy IE!).
In many cases supporting legacy IE is more hassle than it is worth, so people genuinely don't need IE8 users as customers.
Unfortunately IE8 came with Widnows 7 so is supported as long as that is which IIRC is until 2020 (for the extended support period). Given how long it took out corporate clients to upgrade from IE6 to IE8 (some only just have) if I don't change jobs I'm going to be supporting IE8 in our applications for the next seven years at least, but many people do have the luxury of being able to say "sorry, I don't have time to be supporting that" especially when they are giving their time/effort for no financial (or similar) gain (I'm at least paid to deal with legacy IE!).