Internet Explorer is definitely not going anywhere anytime soon. They have upgraded IE9 to be somewhat compatible with HTML5. IE10 is supposedly right around the corner, which is amazing. They are looking to actually be compliant with standards now... which is a huge change over the past. If your visitors are not IE users, it makes no difference if you design your site for them. Design for the browsers that are accessing your site. Good luck.
IE9 is nothing to shout about, either. It's what IE browsers should've been like since ages. Nothing ground breaking. No CSS3 text-shadow support makes me grind my teeth as a developer!
It will be a long time before IE becomes dead. Microsoft is still a very big player so it's too naive to claim any of their products is dead.
Firstly it should be he doesn't know, not he don't know. Secondly and most importandly, IE has been the most successful web browser in Windows PC for decades, hence it is totally false claim that IE is dead or going to be dead. Try exploring the advantages of IE8, then say something about IE. By the way, a newbie can't take all the advantages of IE.
The new FF is really fast but not compatible for certain addson. However the moment IE can only be dead is when Microsoft is dead. so I guess most can see what that outcome is.
why would anyone use the old services which have been used by our ancestors. It is one of the worst service providers. They have many drawbacks and still they have time if they change their browsers then can beat any browser but if the trend continuous it would be known as dead.
I dont agree with this thread title. I still IE is still in use in lots of countries by millions of users worldwide. The only aspect of it is they have been really slow in innovating few bugs. This is the reason, chrome and FF scored them out, however I still use IE as well as chrome to compare my sites and my work in different browsers
IE still has a very large market share, it is senseless to not support it. That being said if most of your traffic is coming via the other browsers due to your niche then it is not such a big deal. However you could still potentially really miss out and harm your reputation if your site gets quoted in the media and you get a surge of traffic from people using IE, then your site looks broken to them.
Agreed. Its the first version of IE I've felt very conformable with. There's something very Chromish about it!!
Decades? Maybe 15 years but it was successful due to criminal activities against other companies for which Microsoft is, to this day, still under US Federal oversight and fined over $2 billion dollars in the EU for the same illegal activities. While Firefox, Safari and Chrome have all been gaining market share, IE is the only browser to have lost market share almost every month for 7 years to almost half of its original value. Easy. IE8 is one of the most inept, incompetent browsers on the planet. 13 years behind every other browser in modern standards and practices, it's an embarrassment for Microsoft. So bad, its lead developer, Chris Wilson, quit and went to Google to work on Chrome.
The only noobs are those who use IE. It shows they have no technical knowledge of how the web works. Any person who knows how the web works does not use IE.
Why should end-users know how web works? Not everyone in this world is a web developer. Get of the high horse.
Think for once. I didn't say end users need to know how the web works. I said people who know how the web works don't use IE cause they know better. Which should be a hint to thinking people everywhere that, if the people who know how the web works don't use IE, maybe they shouldn't either.
Animation Geek - You are my hero. I like the site too. IE is not dead but I like your bold attempt to curve it. -MT
I would love to see them gone, but I doubt this will be soon. If you don't optimize for IE now, be sure to lose 15% traffic.
You never write code for a browser. You write to standards. THEN you hack for IE. Standard code works everywhere else.
I'm not sure what you mean that IE is "dead" when it's dominating the market with 43%, while only 28% use Firefox (the second most popular browser) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers That being said, IE obviously used to be more popular in the past, and Chrome is rising quite fast. Personally I mostly use Firefox. I have IE8... I haven't bothered installing 9 yet, and I noticed there's already a test drive for version 10. Feels like they're releasing new versions more often than before.