Wednesday, April 4, 2012

IE and HTML5: The beginning of a beautiful meltdown.



Internet Explorer's HTML5 support (or perceived lack thereof) is causing some serious backlash. First, the folks at 4ormat decided to not support *any* version of Internet Explorer.

According to the TechCrunch article, the team were rewarded with productivity gains and clearer code and, when it comes to recruiting:
It warms our hearts to see the look of incredulous joy on the face of a job candidate when we assure them “You heard right, we really don’t support IE.”
Then the folks at 37 Signals announced that their latest version of Basecamp used HTML5 to the hilt and the only way to realize their vision for it was to drop support for IE8 and lower. Stuck in IE hell? Their suggestion: use Chrome Frame.



Could IE be that bad? Well, apparently so. From a sea of million rants, here's an example. A chronicle of frustration (AKA blog post) whose title says it all: A Web Developer's Confrontation with Internet Explorer. 


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  1. UnknownNovember 21, 2012 at 1:37 AM

    HTML5 Developers is growing field these days because of variety of hybrid and native applications.HTML5 Developers can come up with single applications that offers many features, being complex in nature.

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