Not really. The only people who still need to support ie8 are in enterprise and the enterprise is usually a couple years behind. By the time they upgrade to bootstrap 4 ie8 support will have ended.
My product's client base is 9% IE7 and 60% IE8. Mainly hospitals and .gov agencies use our system. It's getting really hard to even test with those browsers let alone find frameworks that will work for our client base and we can't even force them off, because "IT says we can't install anything because it's insecure." AH!
It's pretty bad. We once got a ticket to make sure our app works with "ALL BROWSERS" because it was broken in IE6. That ticket was 6 months ago. The users are out there.
On highly trafficked sites , IE 8.0 usage can account for a fair amount of users, and conversions etc. It's a tougher decision to make to take those users off the table.
I won't work anywhere that cares about IE. If you are a company that wants to support IE and have competent, professional engineers I hope you pay a high salary.
I worked in an environment like that a few years ago on an internal SPA. IE6 was so bad in terms of memory leaks, the app was unusable in IE6 after a few hours. Many people were using Firefox standalone for our app (among others) just to be able to keep things open all day.
pageld|11 years ago
It's pretty bad. We once got a ticket to make sure our app works with "ALL BROWSERS" because it was broken in IE6. That ticket was 6 months ago. The users are out there.
squiggy22|11 years ago
swartkrans|11 years ago
CCs|11 years ago
We're enterprise and upgrading to 3.3 as we speak. We see a 4-8% of users coming in from older IE, mainly XP. We have customers in USA only.
Our public website: 3% IE7, 5.2% IE8
App: 1% IE7, 3.3% IE8
eterm|11 years ago
We are in an awkward spot of soon having to say, "Sorry ie8 wasn't a suitable upgrade".
tracker1|11 years ago
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