| 1 | Why we don't support IE 8
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| 4 | We've been living in 2007 for a while now, pretending that new browser features don't
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| 5 | exist because they aren't in IE8. You might not even know about some of these features,
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| 6 | or think they are only enabled by jQuery or underscore, simply because it hasn't
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| 7 | been an option to rely upon them.
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| 9 | Here is the list of features you don't have if you choose to support IE 8:
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| 11 | - HTML5 audio and video
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| 12 | - SVG
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| 13 | - Canvas
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| 14 | - TrueType fonts
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| 15 | - Media Queries
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| 16 | - CSS Transforms
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| 17 | - Multiple Backgrounds
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| 18 | - CSS3 Units (vh, vw, rem)
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| 19 | - Custom DOM events
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| 20 | - Hardware accelerated graphics
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| 21 | - The DOMContentLoaded event
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| 22 | - addEventListener
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| 23 | - Object.create, .seal, .freeze, .defineProperty
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| 24 | - Array.isArray, .indexOf, .every, .some, .forEach, .map, .filter, .reduce
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| 25 | - A modern JavaScript engine
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| 26 | - A real developer tools
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| 27 | - A consistent box model
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| 28 | - jQuery 2
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| 29 | - Google Apps
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| 30 | - Tether
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| 32 | It's true that IE 8 still holds a big chunk of the browsing population, but the reasons
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| 33 | why they can't update are dwindling. There are two big reasons for continuing IE 8 support.
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| 35 | #### Enterprises
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| 37 | Microsoft is dropping support for XP in April, organizations who want security updates will have to upgrade.
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| 39 | #### China uses XP
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| 41 | Chrome, Firefox and Opera all support XP. Nothing prevents users from upgrading, except the inertia of
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| 42 | organizations who still support IE 8.
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| 44 | #### The Future
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| 46 | We are skating towards where the puck will be, and we hope that as you decide to drop IE 8 support,
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| 47 | you choose to add Tether to the list of awesome things you can do.
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