What small workflow improvements would you like to see in the future?

**gcellison** · 10 October 2019, 01:50 PM

According to Wikipedia, while IE once had the lion’s share of the browser business, it currently accounts for only about 6% of usage around the world. (Some estimate that it’s closer to 3%.) And of that, a substantial majority is IE11, the last version Microsoft released. Usage of IE10 and earlier is around 0.24%. Since they introduced Edge, even Microsoft doesn’t fool with IE. So, the question is how long Xara (or any other software developer) should cater to such an infinitesimal audience.

Rob-Xar mentions that it would be much easier for the Xara developers not to have to do the testing to accommodate IE. I would add that for us users, ignoring IE10 and earlier from consideration would make our websites much more efficient (i.e., not exporting of many of the bitmap files). It would also allow the developers to concentrate on bringing things up to speed Chrome, Safari, and other modern browsers.

It would be advantageous to the software engineers, much better for the users, and the only ones who might notice a difference are the 0.24% who still use IE10 and earlier. It seems like the ones making the decision should take that into consideration.

**Rob-Xar** · 10 October 2019, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by gcellison

So, the question is how long Xara (or any other software developer) should cater to such an infinitesimal audience.

From Xara's standpoint - I don't know but I can't see it being supported far in the future.

From a web developers standpoint - they shouldn't be catering at all to IE. It adds a large debt to testing and development time for very little benefits.

**handrawn** · 10 October 2019, 02:08 PM

some reading

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...er/ba-p/331732

**Rob-Xar** · 10 October 2019, 03:50 PM

That was the link in my post #133 :P

**handrawn** · 10 October 2019, 03:53 PM

so it was

forgive me, but at least we are on the same page

**Rob-Xar** · 10 October 2019, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

forgive me

Never! I'm grabbing my pitchfork.

**handrawn** · 10 October 2019, 04:13 PM

I hope you know how to use one, it's not quite as simple as they made it look in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - make sure you have that anti-tetanus jab, just in case

**gcellison** · 04 February 2020, 05:33 AM

Originally Posted by Rob-Xar

From Xara's standpoint - I don't know but I can't see it being supported far in the future.

From a web developers standpoint - they shouldn't be catering at all to IE. It adds a large debt to testing and development time for very little benefits.

Just a final procrastinated lash to make sure the dead horse is really dead…

For a while I’ve maintained three YouTube accounts. One is for news and investigation, another for entertainment, videos, etc., and the last one for fluff. Since they constantly give you recommendations, I figured it was an easy way not to have interference from one realm to the next.

Rather than signing in and out, I use a different browser for each. Internet Explorer for news (just because I opened up that account first, when IE was still the prominent browser available), Google Chrome for entertainment, and Edge for fluff.

Why do I bother you with these details? This evening when I opened up the account in IE11, a banner across the top advised me, “We’ll stop supporting this browser soon. For the best experience please update your browser.” I’ve already moved it over to Firefox… no big deal.

But it makes it clear that EVERYone has essentially stopped making any effort to support IE. Xara should feel justified in doing the same.

**handrawn** · 04 February 2020, 10:35 AM

maybe first all the big corporate IE users resisting change and the cost and effort and hassle involved will need to switch

**gcellison** · 04 February 2020, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

maybe first all the big corporate IE users resisting change and the cost and effort and hassle involved will need to switch

You may be right, but I hope not.

Since anyone can easily install the most modern browsers for free and with little effort, I don’t understand why corporations would resist. More so, when they would surely be developing their own websites to be state of the art, with bells and whistles that most versions of IE couldn’t handle.

And if they see that IE, in all its versions, maintains only about 2% of the market, it would be a wise corporate move not to make efforts to force the survival of IE. Particularly since even Microsoft no longer supports it.