During the oughts a lot of large companies had a lot of applications written using Microsoft DHTML “behaviors” and other specific tech. At an insurance company I worked on an app in the late teens that required IE7 and moving that to Chrome/Firefox was a 4 developers for 6 months effort. Which was actually really good since no one thought it could be done.
Many of these companies “standardized” on ie11 and wouldn’t even install chrome or Firefox. That’s why IE lasted so long.
I think people forget how much query played a role in peeling the fingers of IE’s death grip away as well.
Better alternatives plus compatibility layers.
There are lots of antiquated techs that deserve to be relegated to the dustbin of history, but I feel like some people have done jquery dirty by pretending that we never needed it in the first place.
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Why did IE last so long and refuse to die? Simple:
During the oughts a lot of large companies had a lot of applications written using Microsoft DHTML “behaviors” and other specific tech. At an insurance company I worked on an app in the late teens that required IE7 and moving that to Chrome/Firefox was a 4 developers for 6 months effort. Which was actually really good since no one thought it could be done.Many of these companies “standardized” on ie11 and wouldn’t even install chrome or Firefox. That’s why IE lasted so long.
I think people forget how much query played a role in peeling the fingers of IE’s death grip away as well.
Better alternatives plus compatibility layers.
There are lots of antiquated techs that deserve to be relegated to the dustbin of history, but I feel like some people have done jquery dirty by pretending that we never needed it in the first place.
jQuery?
Looks like autocorrect got one but not the second, yes.