Do I need to support Internet Explorer 8 and below for layout?

Question

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In the near future I want to get a job as a layout designer. I'm concerned about the question. Do I need to support IE 8 and below. Yes, and IE 9. I thought about this when I decided in my practice to specify margin and padding in rem . In order to make it easier to understand where what indents will be. In my understanding, this is better than em. And IE8 and below don't support rem

Answer 1

You should not think about it, everything was written above exactly:
Microsoft does not support anything other than IE11;
The share of using old IE is just minuscule, and those who use them are employees of companies in which WinXP or Win7 are still installed to run specific software, it is unlikely that these employees will go to online stores and other sites.
But if you work in an office, then what will need to be supported and what will not depend on you, as was written above.

Answer 2

Once upon a time I thought that programming is creativity and innovation, until I came across an objective reality)
Working for a company, an ordinary programmer turns into a typewriter operator, where they have already decided for him what and how he should write, and he can only follow the methodology and have time to hand over everything before the deadline to the detriment of your personal time.
Support for ancient browsers is a weapon in the hands of sales managers, with which they win new customers. They whisper to them in a sweet voice the mantra that there are 2 percent of people who live in the Stone Age and if you do not make them happy, then your site will lose those 2 percent of profit. Clients of course estimate that 2 percent is 2 percent and agree to overpay for such work, hoping that these costs will eventually pay off. This is called the division of responsibility, which F. Nietzsche once wrote about. The manager sells a service that he himself will not produce, and therefore he will not sit and rack his brains over its implementation.
It’s good if the developer is paid extra for such client whims, then it will still be at least somehow justified, but otherwise, if the programmer in the organization is on a salary, then all the clients’ Wishlist, starting from pixel perfect in rubber design, will fall on his shoulders as a heavy burden and ending with scheme markup in each tag.
This approach to work requires the programmer to be constantly at the limit. He becomes a robot who spends all his personal time learning various code optimization techniques or mastering new frameworks that are introduced by management into the process after attending the next trendy seminar. Scrum, Agile, TDD and other innovations take away the most important thing from ordinary developers - the full life of a free person.
It turns into an adnexal organ of the corporate body, which is only able to perform one function - to write code. Narrow specialists cease to understand the inner life of representatives of other professions, and a person should strive for diversified development, because only a whole person has access to a whole (read full-fledged) life.
A person should have the right to leisure and entertainment, and he defended this right in the revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries.
PS
From time to time I come across advice on the net to young developers that they should give up all their hobbies and write code for days, otherwise they will not be in demand on the market. This is a harsh reality, but I hope that someday good will win the loot and justice will prevail))
PPS
A little off topic, but the idea insistently demanded to state itself on "paper"))

Answer 3

Instead of a thousand words

Answer 4

No, it doesn `t need. It is necessary to actively explain this to customers.
All IE, except the 11th, is not supported even by Microsoft itself.
The share of these browser versions is simply zero. The question is, who needs this masochism?
But still, the text should be readable, and basic functions should work, such as authorization, commenting, etc.
Yes, do not forget to hang the stub that the browser is out of date.

Answer 5

Our team supported IE7 on the project until last year. This decision was made by the customer. Now support for IE9+. Now let's enjoy CSS3. It all depends on the customer or on you, if you draw up the TOR and these points are agreed with the customer.

Answer 6

According to my IE, in principle, it makes no sense to support. This is the rare case when a browser manufacturer has to make sure that his content works "like normal people".