Kyle Polulak, on 14 April 2014 - 12:47 PM, said:
IE10-IE11 are not industry standard. Far from it; the only reason IE has any traction is because of the illegal bundling of the browser.
Actually you can't use this argument anymore as in the EU there is a popup letting people download something else other than IE. If you were talking IE6 and lower yes I would agree with the statement. In the rest of the world a lot of machines are getting setup with the other browsers (I know of quite a few boutique builders and stores that do this, including myself). We also wouldn't have seen the surge of people using Chrome, Opera, FireFox or Safari if people were not ditching their bundled version of IE.
Kyle Polulak, on 14 April 2014 - 12:47 PM, said:
IE11 has changed the way their trident rendering engine handles HTML to the point were they have broken many of their own standards. They don't respect the box model they forced all web developers to use. It's a total mess.
Yes they are finally getting compliant so all these tricks that had to be done to make IE6/7 work are not needed for 10/11.
Kyle Polulak, on 14 April 2014 - 12:47 PM, said:
The forums didn't break; IE broke. We will never support IE directly due to the inconsistencies in versions, rendering engines and standards compliance.
Stop supporting it directly and just code to the standards and do testing, if everything works great if not then start to troubleshoot the issue. I've done that for years in web dev and it hasn't failed me, if one browser or another wasn't giving the desired results I would use a js script to detect it and pop a window up informing them they should update/change browsers for a better experience. With CSS3 and HTML5 taking traction the past few years this methodology is still valid.
Kyle Polulak, on 14 April 2014 - 12:47 PM, said:
Google and Microsoft are compatible in terms of snooping on your browsing habits; so please don't spread misinformation that one browser is more evil than the other; the fact of the matter is a browser is increasingly a personal choice. I would recommend any other browser than IE to use this website.
Yes I will agree with this, anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves.
Edited by Dark DeLaurel, 14 April 2014 - 08:51 PM.