As of now, and most likely the next couple of years, I'm stuck needing to support IE8 as as first class citizen in my designs at my day job, unfortunately. We have put our foot down about the remaining IE6 installs one of our clients (a large bank) apparently has though, so that much is good...
In personal projects I can afford to be more fussy and only support recent browsers, but in the day job these things are beyond my control even if they seem to be beyond good reason.
Of course flexbox is for the most part a display issue - as long as your layout changing in an older browser that doesn't support it doesn't break your application (by stopping features being accessible or by making it ugly enough to fail UAT) you can still use it (with care) even if needing to support legacy user agents.
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Thankfully, as of January only Vista users will still be on IE9 (well, in a supported manner).
As of now, and most likely the next couple of years, I'm stuck needing to support IE8 as as first class citizen in my designs at my day job, unfortunately. We have put our foot down about the remaining IE6 installs one of our clients (a large bank) apparently has though, so that much is good...
In personal projects I can afford to be more fussy and only support recent browsers, but in the day job these things are beyond my control even if they seem to be beyond good reason.
Of course flexbox is for the most part a display issue - as long as your layout changing in an older browser that doesn't support it doesn't break your application (by stopping features being accessible or by making it ugly enough to fail UAT) you can still use it (with care) even if needing to support legacy user agents.
I love consulting for enterprises due to the stability and large amounts of data but I still run into a lot of IE7/IE8. It is depressing.