Windows 7 and IE7

jadentyhy · 30 Aug 2014 at 13:21

Hi all,

Haven't posted in here in a while but I was just curious about something someone said to me a few days ago.
I was working on a site for a client recently I added a new feature (accordion style Read More/Less links) and this client said that the new features were not working in IE. So I went to browserstack and ran some tests all version of IE8+ were fine so I asked this client what OS they were using and what version of IE.
They came back and told me Windows 7 and IE7 - I thought that was very strange, maybe someone can shed some light on this, but I didn't think anyone would be running IE7 on a Windows 7 machine?
And also would anyone code for IE7 now?

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marc2003 · 30 Aug 2014 at 13:31

windows 7 comes with IE8 so i think they're a bit confused.

if they really must use IE, tell them to upgrade their browser. even XP supports IE8, vista supports IE9 and if they really are running windows 7 then they should upgrade to IE11.

Ploppy2k3 · 30 Aug 2014 at 13:51

isnt IE8 about to go EOL anyway?

jadentyhy · 31 Aug 2014 at 03:05

thank you

O.D. · 31 Aug 2014 at 11:58

marc2003 said:
windows 7 comes with IE8 so i think they're a bit confused. if they really must use IE, tell them to upgrade their browser. even XP supports IE8, vista supports IE9 and if they really are running windows 7 then they should upgrade to IE11.

Did some work for a company a year or two ago where we were having an issue with browsers (Minimum requirements based on the software) and even in my last job.

Some companies go through years of testing for browsers (Obviously neglecting the technical reasons why upgrade is better..) to then go "Why change it, it works"

Ideally, everyone would be on IE10+ (Yes. IE. Not Chrome - I'm a Chrome fanboy) for business, but.. Politics

It took months for me to get my last place to use Chrome and that was only because IE refused to work on SharePoint 2013 (Half of our user base were still on XP till about 3 months ago..)

ANYWAY: TL;DR: Make the company upgrade. Mention the words "security"/"saves money"/"saves power"/"Better user experience"/"Will cost less due to developers not needing to write out of date code" - In a 5 page powerpoint = $$$