<story><title>When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared</title><url>https://paulbakaus.com/2015/03/13/when-ie-gave-us-beautiful-fast-touch-interactions-and-nobody-cared/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glesica</author><text>I think the reason nobody seems to care about IE today isn&amp;#x27;t that it is a terrible browser, as in the past, but that it doesn&amp;#x27;t run on Mac OS or GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux. There are certainly people doing development on Windows, but more (at least of people who would use features like this) doing so on other platforms. Until IE is cross-platform, many developers will continue to ignore it because they have no reasonable way of using it and getting to know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lectrick</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about other people, but as an early web developer who worked in an all-Microsoft shop, learning about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish&lt;/a&gt; literally caused me nausea and I quit my job and became an open source developer very soon after and never looked back. There was something so entirely... wrong about that approach. And the browser that was involved with it. And the company that even conceived of it. I still harbor plenty of anti-MS anger as a result (well that, and having to do IE compatibility for many years!)&lt;p&gt;(I admit that also reading the books &amp;quot;The Cathedral and the Bazaar&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Hackers &amp;amp; Painters&amp;quot; influenced me a lot!)</text></comment>
<story><title>When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared</title><url>https://paulbakaus.com/2015/03/13/when-ie-gave-us-beautiful-fast-touch-interactions-and-nobody-cared/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glesica</author><text>I think the reason nobody seems to care about IE today isn&amp;#x27;t that it is a terrible browser, as in the past, but that it doesn&amp;#x27;t run on Mac OS or GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux. There are certainly people doing development on Windows, but more (at least of people who would use features like this) doing so on other platforms. Until IE is cross-platform, many developers will continue to ignore it because they have no reasonable way of using it and getting to know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>The reason nobody cares about IE today is that it has a far lower market share. On desktop far more people are using Chrome, and it&amp;#x27;s nowhere to be seen on mobile, given that it&amp;#x27;s tied to the Windows Phone platform, which is usually a rounding error in usage numbers.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think Mac OS&amp;#x2F;Linux has a huge impact here. And as for the inability to test IE, try modern.ie - free Windows VMs with different IE versions. It&amp;#x27;s not that difficult.</text></comment>