Ask HN: How do I convince my boss that we don't need to support Chrome 14?
I'm a web developer there. Our director of engineering is a C++ guy with 0 web dev experience. However, he is in charge of all the developers and setting our engineering roadmap.
Anyway, he is very stubborn about supporting as old versions of browsers as possible. He is of the opinion that all old or poor people use old browsers and by not supporting them we will be losing customers. No amount of browser statistics will change his mind. He keeps saying things to the gist of "real software should be cross-platform", etc.
I proposed we only support IE9+, Chrome 36+ and Firefox 30+ because those were the only versions we found to still have marginal usage in the US..and I can maybe understand IE8 for people with old computers, but Chrome and Firefox self-update now adays..
He completely rejected my proposal and insists on supporting Chrome 14, Firefox 17, etc.
I think he's smart enough to change his mind if presented with the right arguments, but right now Idk what those would be..
So HN, what arguments or data can I present to our director of engineering to get him to change his mind?