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In what way?
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
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Curse that still have to support IE7 for one of my applications.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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The (theoretical) answer is to check which browser you're using and load the appropriate version - v2 and v1.9 will work much the same way, so if the browser is not an old IE you load v2 (meaning a faster page load because the file is smaller over the wire), and if it is old IE you load v1.9 (slightly slower page load).
In practice, I'd probably stick to v1.x for the near future - if you load it from the Google code cache version it's most likely cached in the browser already so there's no additional stuff over the wire, where v2 isn't in most people's caches yet until there is mainstream adoption of V2.
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I mean, seriously just for the sake of some negligible percentage of IE users why should one compromise and not use JQuery...
coding my world, compiling my destiny
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I heard there is a guy in San Antonio Texas who still uses IE,
and a couple of elderly fellows who are members of the South China Athletic Association...
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There are a lot of public and private organizations/companies using IE 6-8. This is their policy for their own reasons and it happens all over the globe. I know a lot of cases where employees are not allowed to use any other browser or even install them.
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6% for IE8 and below is still higher than Opera.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The government only allows IE....
(maybe that's changed, but I doubt it)
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Deveshdevil wrote: why should one compromise and not use JQuery...
There are versions of jQuery which very well support IE.
Dropping IE 7/8 support is just a bit early (it will eventually happen) and our clients won't like that idea. So currently it's a NO for us.
..Go Green..
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Many organizations still use IE6-8. As another poster mentioned, IE8 ships with Win7 which companies are still running. At the company that I work for, IE10 is banned because of compatibility issues with other mission critical applications including our vpn connection. This is not MS's fault as they don't own these products. But nonetheless, we will be on IE8 until these issues are resolved.
IE isn't a bad browser. The team @MS simply can't move as fast as independent browser companies because upgrading IE involves upgradinging other products such as SharePoint, Windows (windows authentication), and Office (web viewers). In addition, Microsoft still has to support IE6-8. The desktop market is revenue generating, the browser market isn't. As a result, a desktop market share =>90% demands that you continue to support older browsers for companies that have products built to run in those browsers. So call MS victim to their own success if you will but, there are talented developers and engineers at MS. Let us not forget who invented the technology that makes jQuery possible, and now SignalR.
I do believe you will see more separation of concerns as it pertains to IE as it has already began in IE10 and Windows 8. As evidence of what's to come, consider that you can now write Windows desktop (WinRT/Windows8) applications in HTML5 + Javascript or standard .NET.
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Just as simple as this:
If I have a business that depends on my web page, say like a webstore I should be concerned if some of my possible customers won't be able to buy from me just because my "genious" web developer thinks IE is crap.
Most web users don't even know what a "browser" is.
They just know that they have to use something to access the internet and do their thing.
It's up to us developers to make sure that their experience is as good as possible.
Personally I prefer to aim low and feed them all than aim too hight and leave some users behind.
Cheers!
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AlexCode wrote: Most web users don't even know what a "browser" is.
This is a very condescending statement. But Yes
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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AlexCode wrote: Most web users don't even know what a "browser" is.
That might be true however when they are told on the TV that their favorite angry birds game is played best on Chrome they will change. With Chrome taking the share of browsers you have to realize that many users are becoming aware of these requirements because of the "educational" commercials that google puts out.
For those that don't want to switch we always have chrome frame that html5 boilerplate[^] encourages. 
as if the facebook, twitter and message boards weren't enough - blogged
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It's pain for developers.
Cheers by,
Anand Ranjan
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IE should be considered as a p0rnographic tool.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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IE Should be declared as a CRIME.
Any one who will be find using IE, will have to use Windows 8( only metro ,no desktop) for next 2 years. 
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I have no idea what you're talking about.
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I'm sure we'd all love to drop support for old browsers and force our customers to upgrade, but if our competitors are still supporting old browsers we have to as well.
I'm just about to start up a side project, and I don't expect to be supporting IE 8 in that. Too much work for 5.5% usage share and dropping.
Of course during my day job I'm developing for a government agency that is standardized on IE8. So, put me down for maybe 
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Might be important to add that my decision to drop IE8 support doesn't have anything to do with JQuery's support of it in the latest version.
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As long as you need to support IE8 or worse just keep serving them the larger/slower 1.x versions while giving new ones 2.x. The intent is for the two branches to remain feature compatible until IE8 becomes dead enough that JQuery can abandon the 1.x branch entirely.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The CP forums don't bump (threading is strictly determined by the data of the first post in the thread). That leaves the green upvote arrow as the only way to express "Yes I agree" without writing anything non-trivial.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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IE6-8 will still be supported via jquery 1.x (which will remain feature compatable with 2.x) for the next few years. 2.x is their semi-decrapified version that's smaller/faster for use with newer browsers. Jquery's recommendation is to either stay with 1.x or add a conditional to select which version is delivered based on the browser until you're able to drop legacy IE.
Don't feel bad; you're in good company. Maunder appeared to be confused[^] as well and needed schooled[^] in what is actually going on.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I will be including the 1.9 series with conditional includes for the older IE browsers until those browsers are not used by my clients.
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