Saturday, October 24th, 2009

We aren't going to support Internet Explorer

By Tyler King

We're quickly ramping up for the first release of our CRM product which means there are some very important design decisions being made. �One that I'm both excited and terrified about is the decision to block our application from people using Internet Explorer.

The reason we're not supporting IE is because...well, basically it's because IE totally sucks and I don't need that in my life. �I personally believe that Internet Explorer is single-handedly responsible for significantly slowing down innovation in some of the most important areas of technology. �We might have flying cars today if it weren't for Explorer!!!!

Ok, we wouldn't have flying cars, but IE seriously does a lot more damage than most people realize, and I'm proud to be able to say that I'm doing my part to put a stop to it. �At the same time, IE is the most popular web browser so this decision could potentially turn away a lot of customers. �I'm hoping people are willing to put in the 60 seconds it will take to upgrade their browser, but only time will tell what type of response we get.

UPDATE: Ok, so we caved. We now support IE 7+.

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