support for IE 5.*

[ljw-3]

jquery works with IE 6+ and three other major current browsers.  Is it
generally expected to work with older browsers such as IE 5.*, just
not tested?  If not, what generally is expected to go wrong?

[Michel Belleville]

Well, don't expect much to work on IE 5, and remember IE6 handles most CSS like sh...

Just a question : why bother trying to be compliant to a product that's been obsolete for something like 8 years already and that no-one bothers to use anymore ?

Michel Belleville

2009/11/6 ljw <linneajw@...>

jquery works with IE 6+ and three other major current browsers.  Is it
generally expected to work with older browsers such as IE 5.*, just
not tested?  If not, what generally is expected to go wrong?

[Jeffrey Kretz]

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I concur.  Recent stats have put IE 5.5 usage at less than 0.1 % of web traffic.

 

That is a tremendous minority to worry about.

 

From: Michel Belleville [mailto:michel.belleville@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:27 PM
To: jquery-en@...
Subject: Re: [jQuery] support for IE 5.*

 

Well, don't expect much to work on IE 5, and remember IE6 handles most CSS like sh...

Just a question : why bother trying to be compliant to a product that's been obsolete for something like 8 years already and that no-one bothers to use anymore ?

Michel Belleville

2009/11/6 ljw <linneajw@...>

jquery works with IE 6+ and three other major current browsers.  Is it
generally expected to work with older browsers such as IE 5.*, just
not tested?  If not, what generally is expected to go wrong?

 

[wshawn]

I typically focus on on IE8 and ignore the rest.  It is nice jQuery
has the range it does, but my audience is typically more technically
oriented and most of which wouldn't be caught dead using IE for any
reason.

jQuery makes this a non issue in my book, Simply sticking to what it
does will allow you to cover the vast majority of visitors.

I understand there are plenty of people still running Win9x and
thereby would still be attempting to see the web with IE5 (or
earlier),  I simply choose to leave them where they want to be -- left
behind in a very cold and dark place.  Computers are too cheap and
have been for years. If cost is an issue give them openSuse, Ubuntu,
Fedora, or anything else!

On Nov 5, 10:33 pm, ljw <linne...@...> wrote:
> jquery works with IE 6+ and three other major current browsers.  Is it
> generally expected to work with older browsers such as IE 5.*, just
> not tested?  If not, what generally is expected to go wrong?

[Gene Berger]

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I  can understand not supporting IE5, but according to  http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2  IE6 has a 23.3% market share which is substantial.  (All  IE5 versions only have .07% market share.)  I assume the IE5 market share is because of older computers (less resources required) and because of corporate users (the company has standardized on IE6).

 

Until IE6 has a market share like IE5, there are substantial limitations for jQuery because of rewrites for different versions.

 

From: Jeffrey Kretz [mailto:jeffkretz@...]
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 3:57 AM
To: jquery-en@...
Subject: RE: [jQuery] support for IE 5.*

 

I concur.  Recent stats have put IE 5.5 usage at less than 0.1 % of web traffic.

 

That is a tremendous minority to worry about.

 

From: Michel Belleville [mailto:michel.belleville@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:27 PM
To: jquery-en@...
Subject: Re: [jQuery] support for IE 5.*

 

Well, don't expect much to work on IE 5, and remember IE6 handles most CSS like sh...

Just a question : why bother trying to be compliant to a product that's been obsolete for something like 8 years already and that no-one bothers to use anymore ?

Michel Belleville

2009/11/6 ljw <linneajw@...>

jquery works with IE 6+ and three other major current browsers.  Is it
generally expected to work with older browsers such as IE 5.*, just
not tested?  If not, what generally is expected to go wrong?

 

[Richard D. Worth-2]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Gene Berger <crapper_mail@...> wrote:

I  can understand not supporting IE5, but according to  http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2  IE6 has a 23.3% market share which is substantial.  (All  IE5 versions only have .07% market share.)  I assume the IE5 market share is because of older computers (less resources required) and because of corporate users (the company has standardized on IE6).

 

Until IE6 has a market share like IE5, there are substantial limitations for jQuery because of rewrites for different versions.

See

http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/msg/6aecfa8e932a4fdf
"
I can't think of a single thing that we could remove from jQuery that wouldn't also affect IE 7.0. The JavaScript and DOM implementations in IE 6 and 7 are virtually identical - and because of that there's really no reason for us to stop actively supporting IE 6 (at least not until both 6 and 7 are dead - who knows when that will be).

--John
"

- Richard

[Michel Belleville]

I meant it's useless to be IE5 compliant, and merely an often unavoidable pain to be IE6 compliant.

Michel Belleville

2009/11/6 Gene Berger <crapper_mail@...>

I  can understand not supporting IE5, but according to  http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2  IE6 has a 23.3% market share which is substantial.  (All  IE5 versions only have .07% market share.)  I assume the IE5 market share is because of older computers (less resources required) and because of corporate users (the company has standardized on IE6).

 

Until IE6 has a market share like IE5, there are substantial limitations for jQuery because of rewrites for different versions.

 

From: Jeffrey Kretz [mailto:jeffkretz@...]
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 3:57 AM

To: jquery-en@...

Subject: RE: [jQuery] support for IE 5.*

 

I concur.  Recent stats have put IE 5.5 usage at less than 0.1 % of web traffic.

 

That is a tremendous minority to worry about.

 

From: Michel Belleville [mailto:michel.belleville@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:27 PM
To: jquery-en@...
Subject: Re: [jQuery] support for IE 5.*

 

Well, don't expect much to work on IE 5, and remember IE6 handles most CSS like sh...

Just a question : why bother trying to be compliant to a product that's been obsolete for something like 8 years already and that no-one bothers to use anymore ?

Michel Belleville

2009/11/6 ljw <linneajw@...>

jquery works with IE 6+ and three other major current browsers.  Is it
generally expected to work with older browsers such as IE 5.*, just
not tested?  If not, what generally is expected to go wrong?