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derleth on Feb 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is IE9 a modern browser?

> If IE won't support websockets, we won't use websockets because of lacking support in IE

This is already untrue for a number of websites. IE isn't as dominant as it once was.

matei on Feb 15, 2011 [–]

I don't think any of my clients would accept dropping support for IE.

estel on Feb 15, 2011 | [–]

Indeed. I also don't think any clients will accept dropping support for IE6-8, so the IE9 release, whilst nice, will never be a limiting factor in feature support.

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