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Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-being-platform-agnostic? dept.

darthcamaro writes "Guess what — you don't have to support Microsoft's IE web browser any more to build a successful website. In fact, you might just be able to save yourself a pile of cash if you avoid IE altogether." (Here's the story, from a few days back, in Canada's National Post, about the frugal financing of social startup Huddlers.) Evidently, no one complained about the lack of IE support either. I'd like to read more details about what $100,000 worth of IE-specific development would buy, though; not being dependent on IE sounds great, but loses some sparkle if it means requiring Chrome or Firefox.

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  1. Re:They skipped IE support on their ADMIN pages by ilguido · · Score: 4, Interesting

    this article is also rather old

    Come on: Julia Johnson May 25, 2012 – 2:53 PM ET | Last Updated: May 28, 2012 7:45 AM ET

  2. Re:Useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd like to read more details about what $100,000 worth of IE-specific development would buy, though

    Boring pixel perfect rendering to make the artists happy. Blah.

    This. So very this. I'm involved in a web project right now where both IE support AND pixel-perfect rendering are apparently vital (it took us about a month to convince the spec designers of the concept of "your fonts are not the user's fonts" and "Illustrator is NOT a web design tool"). We're actually expected to maintain pixel-perfectness in an automated testing environment. Seriously, half our development time has been wasted trying to figure out how to test this with an art department breathing down our necks with pixel-measuring tools for a web application.

    So you can see why I posted anonymously.