Should I care about the 2% people still using Internet Explorer?

Question

I tend to use JS Es6 and some css styles that are still not supported by IE. According to caniuse.com IE is still used by 2% of the entire internet users so should I really care about them? Now some will say that the people using IE doesn't deserve using Es6 apps. 😂

Are giant webapps like Facebook or Amazon Internet Explorer friendly? Do the Facebook engineers write code in Es6 and then give IE different build or just use plain old JavaScript?

Answer 1

babeljs can transform all your new ES6 code so it will run on a potato from the 1860s. It does it all automatically!

Check it out, babel is a js-dev's best friend.

Answer 2

I have a job and our web application simply checks if a user has an old browser. If he does, a special page is shown, which tells him to install a modern one.

Answer 3

They are using polyfill to support old browsers, polyfill would not affect es6 performance, but can trigger supoort if there is old browsers access it.

Answer 4

Well, I think we should try as much as possible to make internet access easy for anyone that is using the web...

Answer 5

Lets start at the question should you care NO
and the rest is answered by Calviղ and Schindlabua

Answer 6

No they are not worth your hassle.

Answer 7

Internet Explorer is still floating😂
2% of people who still using internet explorer, because they don't know how to install Google Chrome, Brave, Opera, etc... 🤔
You should care about them and teach them how to install google 😑

Answer 8

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1790262/?ref=app

Answer 9

it really depends on what you are developing, if it’s a shopping web app I suggest that you should support i.e because let’s say you’re earning 100k usd montly purchases then the 2% would still be an increase to $2k chance revenue!

Answer 10

Some old internet users are addicted to that interface.. They see all these new browsers weird!

Answer 11

Are these styles supported on Safari?

Answer 12

If you want to create a website for downloading google chrome, of course you should.

Answer 13

Yeah we must think about every one beo

Answer 14

@Anonymous chill

Answer 15

depends what your doing, as many mentioned using things like babel or typescript you can target your code for compatibility but luckily its less of an issue everyday

Answer 16

Babel is your friend bro...

Answer 17

yes I think you should

Answer 18

You should not care about those 2%. You should block them from accessing the internet if you can.😜😂

Answer 19

i think so

Answer 20

I think so