Reading IE rants on here and I'm confused.

If a client/boss asks to have something work in ie 8, for example, why can't you just say...

No.

"No, it'll waste a hundred hours in Dev time, costing you at least 5 grand or more. please have your users upgrade to the latest browser, it takes them five minutes."

Or am I just naive

Just... Why can't you say that.

^^^ this

@desirous wouldn't the user be satisfied with saving thousands in Dev cost..

@bitwise I get that... But... Again.. Isn't that dev cost not worth it...

How many grandpa's are there?

Unless that one sale is 5k profit?

Bah.. I already feel your frustration. Forget it. I give up by proxy. Here's your ie 8 implementation

I support IE by showing a notification to upgrade to a modern browser. Edge is one of the options to upgrade to.

after all the customer sets the conditions and the dev replies with solutions and the needed effort.

ie6 compatibility either looks like a site back then or the technical effort is this much and takes about that time to solve.
want a vehicle with no emissions and plastic? take a horse drawn cart or the price for a to be developed high tech car.

if the dev does not take the effort into account it might save the contract this time but will ruin the business in the long run. this could as well convince a boss if this scenario doesn't contain a customer.

because:

- my clients work for the government

- their systems haven't been updated in 4-5 years

- they can't install any updates / browsers on their own due to policy

- and you're the 10th dev in a line that just has to add a new (small but smart) feature to an already huge project that would be better scrapped and rewritten with new technologies in mind

- lastly ... it's their money, if they really want to waste it, so be it

@duetopain oh riggght. Government of course... It all makes sense now.

Excuse me while I put my black hat on...

@Bitwise oh trust me, it is. Requirements are usually "cheap, fast, looks good, responsive". These days, that means flexbox, CSS3 and maybe a JS framework. You're better off starting from scratch with tables and floats than trying to get Flexbox polyfills to work.
Used VueJS (or Angular or whatever)? Just start over in jQueryUI (🤮).

At my current job we're making an internal tool and only support chrome and firefox ☺😊