> Recruitment secret weapon. It warms our hearts to see the look of incredulous joy on the face of a job candidate when we assure them “You heard right, we really don’t support IE.”
I can imagine that look so well...
I can imagine that look so well...
65% of their traffic is from Mac users, so this sounds like a good decision given their audience.
Almost without fail, fixing stuff for IE takes as long as it does to just build the feature in the first place (so 4 hours to do a layout then another 3 or 4 to get it working properly in IE), with CSS/html layout that number has dropped as IE6 has been phased out, but I find that its actually moved over into doing js stuff in IE8 and 7.
There's no reason not to have multiple browsers quickly available - modern computers have sufficient processing power to run multiple applications simultaneously these days.
That's what I have been doing but would like to get away from this as some employers frown on it.
It all depends on your market!
If they had an existing web presence we'd get their logs and figure out about how much traffic they'd lose by dropping IE. Few were willing to pay for it.
(And I was happy to cut my headaches down by an order of magnitude)