Ask HN: Do you still support older browsers? Or do you use latest web tech?

3 pointsinterfacesketch6y ago2 comments

If you support the latest browsers only, what modern features do you use? For example, do you use CSS Grid? Or variable width fonts?

If you still need to support older browsers, what are the reasons for that?

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Depends on the situation. I worked on a site for lawyers and we needed to make it work in IE11, because that was the site all the lawyers used.

I was just at a bank the other day and saw IE being used. It is still 8% of the wider market: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?opt...

To piggyback on mooreds - you need a baseline to see what your target market uses (if you’re making the business decisions)

An easy answer is to add Google Analytics to your site and support browsers that account for greater than 0.5% of your visitors

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

Depends on the situation. I worked on a site for lawyers and we needed to make it work in IE11, because that was the site all the lawyers used.

I was just at a bank the other day and saw IE being used. It is still 8% of the wider market: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?opt...

To piggyback on mooreds - you need a baseline to see what your target market uses (if you’re making the business decisions)

An easy answer is to add Google Analytics to your site and support browsers that account for greater than 0.5% of your visitors

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

3 pointsinterfacesketch6y ago2 comments

If you support the latest browsers only, what modern features do you use? For example, do you use CSS Grid? Or variable width fonts?

If you still need to support older browsers, what are the reasons for that?