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0 pointskaushalmodi7y ago0 comments

> You are right, but critically it isn't supported by IE 11

This has always bugged me. Why does IE always lag behind in such CSS features? What kind of politics is this? Or is it that Microsoft does not have a big or smart enough browser team that can bring the IE/Edge features at par with Firefox/Chrome?

I've been so pissed off by this that I've started a micro-revolution by not caring if my blog renders well on IE/Edge. IE is pain in meeting compatibility with the CSP headers too. Hopefully more people start doing this so that people are forced to move to a better browser than IE.

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koboll7y ago

IE11 does not autoupdate.

Thus it is stuck, frozen in time, a deadweight clinging onto front-end web development.

guhidalg7y ago

Or, viewed another way, IE developers have a stable API surface to work on that isn't a moving target every hour.

dak17y ago

Evergreen browsers provide a stable API surface as well, because the APIs are backwards compatible. Adding support for CSS Grid does not break Flexbox or anything else I was already using. It simply gives me another tool.

ahoy7y ago

There's no moving target. You can write your layout with tables like it's 2005 and it'll render just fine in the latest version of firefox/chrome/safari/edge.

talmand7y ago

What are IE developers?

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andrei_says_7y ago

People who work in financial/healthcare/government institutions have locked workstations and cannot install anything so they cannot move to another OS or browser until the org decides to do so, which is a complex, expensive and maybe even impossible endeavor.

For a blog this wouldn’t be a big issue but if it’s a company website and your biggest clients see a broken layout, it’s a problem.

kumarharsh7y ago

Edge supports all CSS Grid properties.

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