While I agree that many popular brands and sites fail to support IE, I disagree that we should all follow suite.
I think you can only make that decision after having some data on your traffic. If your 10% or 20% of your visitors are coming from IE, is it really worth hampering their experience? I've worked on ecommerce sites with nearly 60% of their traffic coming from users on IE.
In my opinion, software exists to solve problems for humans and it should take into consideration the constraints of those humans; some people aren't going to be able to move from IE to a different browser. I believe our software shouldn't exclude those people when we have the means to support them.
Granted, I'm one opinion, I'm sure there are fine arguments against supporting IE.
While I agree that many popular brands and sites fail to support IE, I disagree that we should all follow suite.
I think you can only make that decision after having some data on your traffic. If your 10% or 20% of your visitors are coming from IE, is it really worth hampering their experience? I've worked on ecommerce sites with nearly 60% of their traffic coming from users on IE.
In my opinion, software exists to solve problems for humans and it should take into consideration the constraints of those humans; some people aren't going to be able to move from IE to a different browser. I believe our software shouldn't exclude those people when we have the means to support them.
Granted, I'm one opinion, I'm sure there are fine arguments against supporting IE.
I agree with you. I have not yet to meet the customer that is willing to miss any visitor.