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Many years ago, before omniboxes were a thing, it just gave you an error. And it was only web developers who knew why. I spent ages one day with an experienced back-end dev colleague who couldn't wrap his head around this no-default-protocol nonsense.
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@sambid Do you run a website? Is it for the general public? If the answer to both of these is yes, you better check your site works in IE. There are other reasons, but this is the main one.
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@sambid Because some believe IE is still the only browser. It's such a sad life not being tech-savvy...
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SHA-25614478y@sambid Have fun getting your site IE 8 compliant (gladly the only sites I have are my own so I don't give a flying fuck about IE)
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vringar16638y@sambid corporate environment ... people don't give a damn about it being up-to-date as long as it complies with their restrictions.
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