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Discussion on: Why you should have ditched IE support long ago...

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

While I agree that many popular brands and sites fail to support IE, I disagree that we should all follow suite.

I think you can only make that decision after having some data on your traffic. If your 10% or 20% of your visitors are coming from IE, is it really worth hampering their experience? I've worked on ecommerce sites with nearly 60% of their traffic coming from users on IE.

In my opinion, software exists to solve problems for humans and it should take into consideration the constraints of those humans; some people aren't going to be able to move from IE to a different browser. I believe our software shouldn't exclude those people when we have the means to support them.

Granted, I'm one opinion, I'm sure there are fine arguments against supporting IE.

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Jukka-Pekka Keisala

I agree with you. I have not yet to meet the customer that is willing to miss any visitor.