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Wow nice, great to see them writing off outdated browsers.

We plan on supporting at least back to IE7. Some of the code was written to do so already, and we'll get there with the rest of it, hopefully with negligible code bloat.

not quite - twitter.com works fine in IE8 and IE7 (and even in IE6 - using the mobile version), whereas this doesn't work in at all in any of those...

Twitter itself isn't giving up on old browsers; which makes me wonder how interesting this would be to anyone else who wants to create a real-world site for the general public (the general public still uses those browsers quite widely)...

I didn't mean to denigrate the effort - it's a fantastic idea. I just meant to say that anyone wanting to use this for a wider-public app will need to put the extra effort in to make it work with the older IEs.

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