Google 'discourages' users of old browsers

Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers by marrs on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @10:35AM (#8257795)

But I think there is a difference. IE6 was so far away from the standard that you had real difficulty supporting both, and really couldn't embrace a lot of features other browsers supported well. This was of course by design, intended to keep us from moving away, but it was so rubbish that designers moved anyway.

IE9 in contrast is pretty decent. In fact it's perfectly fine for most sites. For me, it's Chrome that is now aggressively pushing its own agenda. It doesn't really concern itself with standards any more than IE did, but because it's open source, nobody really notices.

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Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers by tracker1 on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @07:15PM (#8260718)

By the time IE6 landed, it had over 90% market share... I wasn't about to support edge cases that weren't in IE6 at the time... I do agree in principle though.

I think things are fragmenting a bit, but the core is at least more in line among browsers... after ES6/7 take hold a bit better it will be nice.

I really wish the browser vendors would chose to use UTF8 under the covers for JS strings, and simply fix string handling for characters > 2^16 instead of additional regex flags, and string methods. I think it would fix far more bugs in end user code than those it might create.

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