If this is in the wrong forum, I applogize in advance. I'm going to tell you something I did a while back and I know that many of you as developers will think this to be crazy.... So if you want to try it out yourself, but still think it maybe a crazy move.... Try a site you may have that you can "risk" or maybe don't care about. A while back I finally got completely tired of trying to fix, debug, and support Internet Explorer. I found myself no longer caring to try to make this 1 browser work, when all the following did just fine.... Desktop (Home Computer) Firefox Sea Monkey Google Chrome Chromium Opera Safari Camino Mobile Opera Mini Opera Mobile BlackBerry Browser Firefox for mobile Dolphin Browser Kindle Basic Web (Amazon) Skyfire Mobile Browser WebOS Browser Nokia Series 40 Browser BOLT browser Skyfire Blazer And the list goes on and on.... Yet only Microsoft Internet Explorer is the only one that was giving us issues. I found myself adding more code, just to support that 1 browser. And even more code to support different versions. http://youtu.be/vTTzwJsHpU8 So one day I complete decided to kill Internet Explorer and discontinued support for it all together. Sure I got a few upset people and at first things looked bad. But let me tell you.... My SEO rating is UP, traffic is UP, membership is UP, and I'm less stressed. We went from having Microsoft Internet Explorer being at #1, then going down to dead last, and now with the exception of 2 members... It's all done and over with. And things are better. I would recommend it.
Hmm this is very interesting, but im not sure how it changed your seo rankings as usually to make websites display correctly on i.e you only need edit the css properties
In any case i dont understand why do we need to support all versions of IE. You cant expect to use a 10 year old browser and have it display all pages properly. If it was only IE9 it would be fine but when you have to make it work on ie6 and up its just stupid.
no need to kill I.E. everybody has started their journey with internet explorer.it is the official product of microsoft.
I doubt it, if all else fails MS would probably rewrite it to something users are asking for. Windows isn't going anywhere, so neither is IE for that matter. Use netrenderer.com, allows you to quickly see rendered screenshots of a site based on the IE version you pick.
I havent had many issues with IE9. It renders the same as IE10 in 90% of the cases. Just from my experience.