With Microsoft phasing out Internet Explorer and bring in “project Spartan,” sometime in 2015 (I’ve heard April), should I even continue to style for older version of IE?
A new browser from anyone isn’t going to instantly remove the older model from running free out in the wild. Right now, I’d not change anything, and only then to cater for the new, not stop catering for the old.
You should be keeping an eye on your browser usage and then make a decision when it’s time to phase out a browser. E.g. right now hte OLDEST you should be doing is probably IE8, perhaps even IE9.
IE8 is in a funny position of being the last IE available on XP so I’m not sure when that will be possible to remove. Hopefully soon.
Thanks RyanReese that’s kind of what I thinking.
Have you’ve heard when the the “project Spartan” can be downloaded to test without the use of Windows 10?
Nope; and Google doesn’t appear to have any information on the subject either.
In essence of Internet explorer do you think it’s safe to just with start IE9? and ignore IE8. My understanding of Windows 10 is that IE10, being the lowest version of IE, will run side by side with the new browser Spartan.
Oh if you have a VM on the microsoft website, if you sign up, I believe you can download a beta version of Windows 10, to test the environment, which I’m assuming Spartan is there to test as well.
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I mean that would be fine to just ignore IE8 (check to see if content is accessible in it) but yeah that should be fine.
IE8 to IE9 isn’t all that different so I’d just have a quick peek in there. Definitely keep an eye on your browser usage though just in case. You should be fine though.
I was reading a few articles and it looks like Spartan isn’t on those test environments yet. Might be wrong though.
I think you are probably right about Spartan, I just read about it. I will let you know, once my IT guy has finished setting up Windows 10 on the VM though.
IE8 is way different from IE9 – IE9 introduced a whole load of HTML5 stuff that isn’t in IE8 (e.g. native video and audio).
And since IE8 is the latest version for XP, but Win7 can install IE11, I’d say that IE8 is more important to test in than IE9 or IE10, and that that distinction could increase over time (i.e. that IE9-10 usage might drop below IE8 usage before IE8 fades away completely).
Until most Windows users have switched to version 10, there will be people out there using old versions of IE.
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