Saturday 16 November 2013

Dropping Support for Internet Explorer 7

Browser Support Changes

Recently we decided to stop supporting Internet Explorer 7 due to it displaying our markup incorrectly and constantly needing work arounds. This applies to Enhanced Listings users and more recent features although the main directory still displays fine.

One thing that lead us to stop support was implementing a pure CSS drop down navigation which works in every other browser apart from IE7 so the decision was made to stop doing work arounds.

With Internet Explorer 7 having 4.47% of world browser usage, according to this page, we feel this would be an even smaller number for UK only visitors so it makes business sense to end support as well as technical.

If you still use IE7 you should really consider upgrading it to a newer version which supports modern web standards better and please remember IE7 was release in January 2006 which is a very long time in our industry and the most recent Internet Explorer is 11 which you can get here.

No IE7 image
Internet Explorer 7

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