Let's talk about IE 8-10 and JS-first ecosystem priorities for a minute. Statcounter shows IE 8-10, collectively, to represent 0.17% of public browsing. That's right, one sixth of one percent.https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1233217702103150593 …
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How confident are you that your choices in JS framework and library size aren't costing you more than one sixth of one percent of traffic?
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And yet: https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom.html#browser-support … https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=react-dom@16.13.0 … https://preactjs.com/about/browser-support/ …https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=preact@10.3.2 …
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This is *deadweight loss*. The desktop-legacy-first tools have dug in and are constrained by their exisiting constituencies. Moving to a better location on the reach/richness chart has perverse incentives attached: dropping legacy runtimes means saying "no" to existing users...
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...whereas, lightening up gets you very few additional developers signing on *because developers live in the high-perf bubble*. And nobody -- not browsers, not devtools, not search engines -- have deployed sufficient penalties for incrementally bad behavior toward most users.
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Statcounter also shows IE 11 at 1.5% of public browsing. Together, if statcounter is to be beleived, that means IE 8-11 are LESS THAN TWO PERCENT of traffic. Chrome for Android is the largest browser in their dataset today. How much time do you and your team spend on Android?
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IE will forever get more attention than any other old browser. It’s such a weird mindset.
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Old IE getting more airtime in these conversations than UC or Samsung Internet or FB's in-app diaster -- the *real* problem child by volume -- will never case to amaze.
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In-app browsers should—I can’t stress this enough—be illegal
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