If your website does not load correctly with IE8, which has the largest market share in the IE group and is also about 20%-30% of all internet browsers, this is a failure, especially if there is no technical reason for this to be.
I wouldn't and didn't say that. Just that I'd expect it to work with the most common browser out there.
That said, it couldn't be used on a general purpose web site without at least some fallbacks.
For the record, Chrome 16 holds the title of "Browser with the single largest piece of marketshare for vendor/version combo" with 30.5% as of Jan 2012. It works dandy in there. So yeah, it works just fine with the most common browser out there.
IE8 was released nearly three years ago. By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions. Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point.
I was under the impression that Chrome auto-updates, and hence Chrome 16 is really all the "Current stable release" versions of Chrome.
So might as well compare it to IE9 and IE8 combined.
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
> By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions.
I was also under the impression that Chrome got rid of meaningful "major" releases some time ago in favor of non-meaningful "major" releases.
"Google Chrome's Version Number Is Meaningless"
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-chromes-vers...
> Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point.
Getting some text to align on a website for a significant browser segment is not ridiculous to me at all.