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Internet Explorer vs. Murder Rate (lemmy.world)
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[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I use to work in an seo / Web dev shop. I always dreamt of creating a CSS helper tool that automatically fixed the IE issues

I was going to name it ieBitchSlap.

I moved on but regretted not following through. Although it would have been quite awkward when they took over GitHub.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I remember having to write so much bullshit code to make it look right on IE. I think by 2018, I got fed up with it and put it in my contract that I don't code for IE. And to my surprise, most companies were like, "Yeah we don't give a fuck about those users either." Either their metrics showed that IE users weren't buying, or they were a small segment not worth supporting.

And I never looked back.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, come to think of it, by the end of my tenure at 2013 I think I put in the header to advise the user to use a better browser. However, I'm pretty sure eventually, I was overruled on that.