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No you're completely wrong, given that older versions of IE are often run out of ROM on thin clients in locked-down business environments. Particularly in health care clinics that are cash strapped because their target market is low income like mental and family care... or where in-house business crapplets rely on specific versions of IE preventing an upgrade.

Your attitude basically translates into your saying "you know what, f*** poor people and small business owners"

First of all, it was a joke. And secondly, with some amount of sincerity, IE < 11 users should not be using the Internet with those browsers particularly since Microsoft issued end of life announcements for IE 10, 9, 8, and earlier back in January 2016.

As many others have mentioned, the economics of it don't make the case for investing resources into supporting browsers that less than 0.50% of Internet users use. The cost of providing backward compatibility for such a small percentage of users that would yield only a marginal amount of revenue when there is not a compliance obligation is unreasonable. And no, graceful degradation is not always possible. Despite what you may think, modern users want web applications, not only web pages.

And no, I'm not saying FU to poor people and small business owners. Last I checked all of the evergreen browsers are free and can run in tandem with other browsers. If a company's machines are so lacking in memory that IE will crash them, then that company can't possibly expect to run anything other than their ancient legacy application on the machine.

Matt Strom Assuming their OS even supports those "evergreen" browsers. (Who the *** came up with that dumbass name for them anyways? Great another sick buzzword, just what the industry needed!)

Or did you miss that Chrome and FF dropped XP support despite it STILL being the only choice for many users? (for bullshit reasons since Win32 is Win32... Oh noes, we had to use one extra macro statement, can't have that)

... and honestly as a user AND developer, this focus on web crapplets is REALLY pissing me -- and a lot of USERS I know -- OFF. In a "for f*** sake just give me the CONTENT" kind of way. If I'm on a mobile device, FINE... but if I'm sitting at a desktop or on my media center, you can take your crapplets and stick them in an extremely uncomfortable place.

What... like the back of a Volkswagon?

It often feels like this whole web crapplet thing is more driven by marketers and scam artists more interested in sick buzzwords and circle-jerk circus sideshow barking than meeting actual user needs and wants. The end result being overcomplicated difficult to maintain messes that tells users to kiss off, scams business owners for every penny they have, and depending on the industry lands the site/service owner in court!

But then my specialty is dragging clients out of court and into WCAG compliance, so my bread and butter is taking garbage -- like unnecessary web crapplets, "JS for nothing", non-semantic markup, artsy-fartsy BS masquerading as design, and a general lack of graceful degradation -- and stomping them into snail-snot beneath my heel.

Probably one of the few developers who rails against the things that pay my bills. The type of half-witted ignorant garbage that's all hot and trendy right now -- like web crapplets -- that tell large swaths of users to BOHICA late '90's style.

JS for nothing and your scripts for free. That ain't workin', that's not how you do it. Lemme tell ya, these guys ARE dumb.