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How does it fare when it comes to browser compatibility?

IIRC, one of the main selling point of jQuery is compatibility with browsers like IE6.

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jQuery doesn't claim compatibility with IE6, they dropped it on jQuery 2.0 to IE8+: https://jquery.com/browser-support/

Umbrella JS supports Internet Explorer 11+, with some of the known bugs and wont-fix here: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella#support-ie11

There is a polyfill to help here: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/polyfill....

Thanks for those links. Also the latest jQuery now only supports Internet Explorer: 9+

Sidenote, everything and every web site should aggressively drop support for ie6.

Why? If your website was IE6-compatible I'd salute you. Drpping support for legacy systems is something that's done too carelessly these days.

PS: I admit that it's hard to support IE6 when it's no longer supperted by MS itself.

Ie6 was is a piece of shit and a security issue. it needs to go away. I would go so far as saying websites should actively block that browser. I don't care about some legacy compatible bullshit. Ie6 was a scourge on the internet. If some corporation doesn't want to upgrade, that's their problem.

Why would you support a legacy system that currently supports just .21% of web traffic? There is no reason to do that and you are just creating more work for yourself with very, very little payoff.

I didn’t really mean like in a new website. What I meant was that I’d salute you if you managed to keep an old document around unchanged for so long.

I wouldn’t want to build a new website for IE6. I guess you’ll have a very hard time setting up a test environment with IE6 installed.

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