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Workday adds scheduling, labor optimization tools for frontline workers Cloud. VentureBeat Homepage. Learn more about what comes next. End of support does not mean the software stops working. When a given deadline is reached for its software, Microsoft simply stops releasing security updates and offering technical support.
Microsoft announced the old IE version cutoff date back in August For Windows 8, users can simply upgrade to Windows 8.
While these older IE versions will no longer receive security updates or technical support, Microsoft is going further with KB Register Don't have an account? Internet Explorer 8. Edit source History Talk 0. Categories Add category. Cancel Save. Fan Feed 1 Nick Jr. Universal Conquest Wiki. Internet Explorer 8 in Windows XP. This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user.
I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using a screen reader.
This time, I spent the day using Internet Explorer 8, which was released ten years ago today, on March 19th, Before we start; a disclaimer: I am not about to tell you that you need to start supporting IE8. But as much as we developers hope for it to go away, it just. IE8 continues to show up in browser stats, especially outside of the bubble of the Western world. Browser stats have to be taken with a pinch of salt, but current estimates for IE8 usage worldwide are around 0. The lower end of the estimate comes from w3counter :.
It estimates global IE8 desktop browser proportion to be around 0. I suspected we might see higher IE8 usage in certain geographical regions, so drilled into the data by continent. I looked more closely into the Asian stats, noting the proportion of IE8 usage for each country. Yes — even in ! Nobody deliberately chooses a worse browsing experience. Is it really such a surprise that there are still people around the world who are clinging to IE8?
I decided to put myself in the shoes of one of these anonymous souls, and browse the web for a day using IE8. You can play along at home! Hmm, okay. Looks like the default web page pulled up by IE8 no longer exists. Well, that figures. Microsoft has officially stopped supporting IE8 so why should it make sure the IE8 landing page still works?
I tried searching for something:. The logo, for instance, is zoomed in and cropped. To enable HTML5 markup, you have to explicitly tell the browser these elements exist.
They can then be styled as normal:. That is wrapped in an IE conditional , by the way. So I go about trying to set up a new one. One way you can get around this is to use Sass to generate two stylesheets; one for modern browsers, and one for legacy IE. There were a few differences between how it looked in IE8 and a modern browser:.
Whilst promising at first sight, the form was quite buggy to fill in. Then I noticed the little yellow warning symbol at the bottom left of my IE window. I clicked it and saw that it was complaining about a JS error:. I was beginning to worry that email might be off-limits for a ten-year-old browser.
But when I went to Hotmail, the signup form looked OK — so far so good:. The only quirky thing on the form was some slightly buggy label positioning, but the signup was otherwise seamless:. The leftmost input should have been my first name, not my surname. This shows the importance of accessible markup — even without CSS and visual association, I could determine exactly which input box applied to which label albeit the second time around!
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