Internet Explorer support

[talha131]

I haven't tested Elegant on any version of Internet Explorer. If you find any problem with Elegant on Internet Explorer, please feel free to submit a pull request.

[calfzhou]

Elegant looks a little ugly on IE. But, well, i'd rather to add a warning message to tell visitors use a better browser 😆

Anyway, it's time to update bootstrap version, we are still using 2.x.

[talha131]

We should not bind internet explorer support with Bootstrap3 integration.

[calfzhou]

Today i tried IE 10 on my Win7, most things work fine.

The problem I mentioned above seems only occurs on IE10 with Win8. Here is the solution suggested by bootstrap official site (http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#ie-10-width). I tried it, but still cannot fix it. Need more investigation.

[talha131]

Argh! Front end design is surely a tough nut to crack because of all these nuances. Thank you for attempt! Hope you will find a solution soon.

[silverhook]

As IE is end-of-life, is this still relevant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#End_of_life

[talha131]

Personally I think we shouldn't care much about supporting IE or older browser versions. This will let us use latest features like CSS-Grid which isn't supported on older browsers.

Supporting old browsers is too much work. I say we close this issue.

[silverhook]

I agree.

I would say the order should be:

1. W3C compliance as a must
2. Blink (Chromium) support
3. Gecko (Firefox) support
4. text-based browsers (Lynx, Elinks, W3) support
5. WebKit (Safari, Qt- and GTK-webkit, Opera, new Edge) support

Personally, I prefer Firefox to Chromium, but the market share is the other way around, so that makes more sense.

[iranzo]

• w3c is tracked here: Fix all w3c suggestions and errors #251
• text browsers in Make sure Elegant is compatible with text-only browsers (e.g. lynx, elinks, w3m) #224

[talha131]

IE is ancient history. Even MS has moved from it.

Considering the size of the team, we can't afford to have support for legacy browsers.

Also, we plan to use CSS grids and Flexbox in the theme which is not going to work on IE.