[Sherwood HParticipant]

Hi there,

I bought X today and am using the Icon stack. Download and installation went fine.

The URL for the site is at: http://hughesriskapps.azurewebsites.net and the version of IE 8 is 8.0.7601.17514.

I get the following two errors reported by IE:

Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.2)
Timestamp: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 17:29:04 UTC

Message: matchMedia not present, legacy browsers require a polyfill
Line: 9
Char: 469
Code: 0
URI: http://hughesriskapps.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/themes/x/framework/js/vendor/enquire-2.0.1.min.js

Message: ‘enquire’ is undefined
Line: 14
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://hughesriskapps.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/themes/x/framework/js/vendor/nanoscroller-0.7.2.min.js

Is there a fix for this? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Sherwood Hughes

[Sherwood HParticipant]

Oh sorry, I should have also said I’m on WP 3.8.1. Thanks.

[RubinKeymaster]

Hey There,

Thanks for reaching out to us about Internet Explorer 8. Allow me to elaborate on this topic a bit more.

Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19, 2009 and was originally intended for use on Windows XP, which was first released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001. As of September 2013, estimates of Internet Explorer 8’s global market share ranged from 6.93% to 8.73% (these statistics have continued to drop of precipitously with each consecutive month).

Keep in mind that this is not all Internet Explorer usage, simply Internet Explorer 8 usage. Internet Explorer 8 is now a five year old piece of software, which in web development terms means that it is very old. The only reason that this browser has remained around as long as it has is due to the fact that Windows XP was a mainstay in the PC ecosystem (which you mentioned above), particularly for businesses.

As you can see from the information provided above, Windows XP is a thirteen year old piece of software and has ultimately become a problematic factor in the industry as it has greatly hindered further development and implementation of new technologies. Because of this, Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP. With the ending of support for XP, users are essentially going to be forced into having to upgrade their operating systems to receive assistance, security updates, et cetera. Upon upgrading to these newer systems, users will need to also update their browser to a newer version.

Now that Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 11, this also means that Internet Explorer 8 is three versions old, and more and more users are abandoning this old platform for the newest offerings put in place by Microsoft. Because of all of this, many providers have already dropped Internet Explorer 8 support for their services (i.e. Google), and Envato (the parent company over ThemeForest) no longer requires Internet Explorer 8 support from their themes due to all of the statistics and information previously mentioned. This is because the amount of time invested in fixing the numerous problematic issues presented by this legacy browser are typically not worth the returns from the increasingly small proportion of users who are utilizing Internet Explorer 8.

We began building X around the middle of last year when Internet Explorer 8 usage was much higher than it is now. However, since then the numbers have continued to dwindle significantly to the point that it is no longer prudent to support such an old piece of software. Because of this, we have just recently made the decision to drop Internet Explorer 8 support with X so that we can ultimately make a better product for our users that is not held back by the old conventions set in place by this legacy browser.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Ace MParticipant]

I found this topic and since you have provided an explanation i didnt want to make a new topic. I am having issues where users report errors an saying that the site is total crap looking. However to me it looks great with modern browsers.

So that users do not get the opinion that our site is crap, perhaps X can implement a plugin that alerts the user the site is optimized for modern browsers etc; with a link to update.

A custom message would be great, but a default is fine. I think this would also help move users away as they may be non technical and not even be aware.

[FriechModerator]

Hi There,

We certainly appreciate the feedback! This is something we can add to our list of feature requests. This way it can be taken into consideration for future development. All of these items are discussed with our team internally and prioritized based on the amount of interest a particular feature might receive.

Thanks!

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