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Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer

posted by martyb on Sunday February 10 2019, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the On-the-edge dept.

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

Microsoft begs you to stop using Internet Explorer

In a blog post, Microsoft senior cybersecurity architect Chris Jackson said continuing to use Internet Explorer is racking up companies a ton of "technical debt." Essentially, by continuing to use IE, organizations are creating additional costs down the line by selecting the easiest, most convenient solution now rather than the approach that is best for the long term. Jackson laid out a scenario in which a company, choosing the easiest possible route since Internet Explorer 6, goes to make a webpage today and ends up using a 1999 implementation of web standards by default.

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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:17PM (1 child)

    by acid andy (1683) on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:17PM (#799088) Homepage Journal

    I thought that too but then I realized in IE there was always horrible behavior that wasn't standards compliant, so avoiding that is probably advisable. On the other hand I'm all for someone building a clean, lightweight web page that would work across all browsers from 1999 which I think is what you meant.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:31PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:31PM (#799094) Homepage Journal

    The _only_ JS does the Tiger Striping - and yes, that's the correct Term Of Art - of my tabular listings.

    The CSS is entirely unnecessary on the desktop.

    The site presently does not use SSL, and will _never_ redirect automatically to HTTPS. Rather, there will be a completely identical but separate SSL site for those who aren't using CyberCafes in Mongolia, as well as for Mom and Aunt Peggy, who use Safari 3 to this very day because as Mom quite furiously shouted one day "APPLE SELLS COMPUTERS!" and she already has in iMac that looks quite cool in her lovely home.

    Also damn near every rural public library in the United States.

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