any stats on how many potential viewers are affected by ie8 incompatability?

  • After researching each and every plugin/widget for compatibility with each other and not slowing down load rate significantly along with meticulous detail in building my new WP site…no mention was made that there might be incompatibility issues with browsers other than firefox! Since my hubby’s a techie, firefox is status quo in our home.
    I found out quite by accident a few hours after my live launch last night when my hubby opened my new site on his employers computer which uses 100% (never to change because that’s their mindset) forever ie8. This is a huge company…obviously not techie oriented…but still.
    That,of course, then opened a whole new world of issues to deal with on my newly launched WP site.
    sigh
    Anybody do any data gathering on whether or not this is really an issue to address or not? And ultimately, is there an easy fix to this at all? Yes, I’ve done lots of research on it, but it is alot of extra work to add more stuff to my child theme now that I’m live on-line…I’m trying to decide pros and cons of trying to be ‘all things to all users’
    Input? Insights?
    I think if I’d been made aware of the potential problems of browser conflicts, I’d have had more time to research the issues specifically and solved my questions of what to actually do long before live launch of my site.
    Thanks.

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  • There may be another explanation in your case, but my own experience with browser incompatibility always ended up squarely with the Theme I was using. Especially the changes I had made if I created a Child Theme.

    I recommend Cross-Browser Testing as part of any project that involves anything other than the default WordPress Themes, either another Theme or a Child Theme you built yourself.

    I used to use BrowserLabs, but see that they shut down a few months back. You’ll find all the info you’ll need, especially alternatives, in that announcement:
    https://blogs.adobe.com/browserlab/2013/03/13/browserlab-is-shutting-down-on-march-13-2013/

    Funny irony: The first time I ran into this problem I was building my own simple Theme, only to discover that it ONLY worked on IE8.

    Thread Starter llilly

    (@llilly)

    LOL….And your ‘funny irony’ is all part of the mix in trying to come to a comfortable conclusion in how to deal with all of this! BTW-my theme is twentytwelve

    As best I can tell, at least half the world still runs XP and IE8. With some paid help from people specifically familiar with Twenty Twelve and IE, respectively, I have managed to get my Child Theme working rather nicely in IE8 (still more to do) and even farther back (but not as well) for whenever I feel like again firing up my first computer. I have all of style.css in my Child Theme with no @import line, and I have custom ie.css for <IE9 plus a function to call only my own sheets there…and getting things set up that way is the hardest part. After that, you just need to tweak IE8.

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