![]() ![]() The world’s third most populous internet community – India – is at 4.9% and next after that is Japan running a relatively high 7%. Down here in Aus it has 4.5%, over in the US they’re a little higher at 6.2% and over to Europe and the UK is all the way down with us at only 4.5% again. Take China out of the picture and IE 8 is rapidly fading into obscurity. That support for IE 8 is being dropped so quickly can only accelerate the trend, even when China tends to be its own little microcosm (ok, big microcosm), of sites and services. On the other hand, China is obviously showing a strong trend towards Chrome and that’ll surpass IE 8 very soon on its current trajectory. Why is it so? I haven’t seen anything to suggest that my original hypothesis on the prevalence of piracy in China doesn’t still hold true and this could well be keeping IE 8 alive there due to the piracy rates of Windows XP. ![]() Conversely, if you want the world’s most internet-dense population to use your site, it still needs to support IE 8. Huh? What?! If you live in the world’s most populous country and more importantly, the country with the most internet users – more than the next three largest countries combined – you’re more likely to be using IE 8 than anything else. ![]() Ok, so IE 8 is dead then, right? Sure, except for when it still has a 23% market share: That’s a very significant, very bold step for them to take and if that doesn’t signal a rapid decline in IE 8 prevalence, I don’t know what does. Now we’re talking! Google has somewhere in the order of half a billion people using Gmail these days and none of them are welcome any longer if they’re using IE 8. That’s right, Gmail has also killed off IE 8 support. Reckon Trello is still a bit niche and probably not relevant enough to the broader audience? Then check this out: But Trello is way more mainstream and touches a much broader range of users. The other poignant thing to point out here is that the Azure Management Portal and GitHub are tools for IT folks who you’d expect to be more tech savvy and up to speed with the state of modern browsers. In fact Trello didn’t just drop support for IE 8, they nuked IE 9 as well. ![]() It made me a little curious – is this my foretold prophecy coming true? Are there other sites that are now actively blocking IE 8? I asked around and one that came up over and over was Trello: This isn’t “graceful degradation” or “hey, why do the round corners look square in that browser” this is full on blockage from getting through the front door. Now I’m not making any of this up – for reasons beyond their control, the folks I was working with were constrained to IE 8 which means things simply stopped working. Them: Actually, it doesn’t look like GitHub works with IE 8 anymore.Īs it turns out, yes, seriously, IE 8 is now no longer supported by GitHub: Me: You mean that’s not the commit you made? Me: Take a look at this commit – is this the one you’re talking about? Now as much as I love Azure, there’s more to the web than just their management portal and indeed Microsoft pulling the pin on their own elder-statesman browser is hardly evidence of support dropping off the cliff.Īnyway, I then needed the aforementioned individual to review a commit on GitHub so I send them over the link: The only real debate around this ended up being whether I meant “literally” or “figuratively” – that support for the old guy would end quickly was never really up for discussion and indeed, here we are. IE 8 support will literally drop off the edge of the cliff and it will happen very, very suddenly Yes! Yes, yes, yes! You see I’m a bit elated because this is precisely what I prophesised some time back when I wrote about The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8. Them: It actually says the entire thing is not compatible with IE 8, let me send you a screen grab: Me: Hmmm, was before, is there something in particular that’s not working? Them: It looks like the site is not compatible with IE 8. Me: Ok, so just click on “All items”, it’s got that little symbol with all the squares next to it. Well at least I was trying to talk them through it but they weren’t seeing what I was seeing on the other end of the phone. So I’m working with someone on a bit of Azure magic the other day and I’m talking them through how to use the management portal. ![]()
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