Ask HN: Do you still support IE11 for new projects?

4 points·tobltobs··5 comments

I have to make a decision if I will support IE11 for a new Saas project (targeting non-enterprise users). It looks like it would require a major effort, comparable to the IE6 hell. On the other side IE11 has still about 20% of market share.

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Does it become any more clear what the answer is if you ask "should I support Windows 7 and Windows 8"? And heck, even among Windows 10, many organizations are using IE11 for compatibility reasons over Edge.

It's the presently supported web browser that is assumed default for enterprise on Windows (and it'll likely be supported as such for several years yet). I'd argue if you intend to support customers using Windows, then it's an absolute must.

Here is a list of all currently supported Internet Explorer versions (green, yellow):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_version_hist...

At the time of this writing, basically >= IE9. One could argue that this is quiet far back, but I would definitely support IE11 since it is supported on Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

In my experience, IE11 has pretty good support of web technologies, so I would not go as far to call it IE6 hell.

Of course. We have large, well-paying customers still using IE 8.

Yeah, basically go where the money is. I mean, if people want to use IE 8, that's perfectly fine in the realm of business transactions, I suppose. These days you even get to charge them a premium for it.

Maybe I should change the title to "... for new projects". If you still have customers on IE8 I guess it is different situation. But if you start a new project, which is not targeted at Enterprise users, you will have to make the decision if you invest your available time into supporting a dying(?) browser or more features.

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