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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by RyanMcGreal on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:37PM (#9198990)
You can design to work on IE without designing to optimize for IE. As long as IE remains a single-platform browser, its standards extensions will remain a mostly-ignored niche.
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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by glesica on Friday March 13, 2015 @03:31PM (#9199432)
This is really what I was trying to get at. I used to work for a company that made a web app that needed to run on Windows and IE (it was very "enterprise").

The developers were virtually 100% Mac and Linux users. I don't think there was a single developer who actually used IE for anything other than testing features before code was merged. We definitely were not going to use IE-specific features, no matter how cool they were, because almost no one could actually run IE except in a crappy VM.

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