Microsoft gives you ‘reasons’ not to use Internet Explorer

It won’t be unfair to say that Internet Explorer has become the ‘step’ child for Microsoft. Ever since with inception of Windows 10, Microsoft has been betting big on the Edge browser and Internet Explorer was kind of neglected. But it hadn’t been spelt out in clear terms. That is until now.

Last week, Microsoft put a post titled “The perils of using Internet Explorer as your default browser” on its blog. First of all – and it won’t come as a surprise to Microsoft – that not many people actually use Explorer as their default browser. That ship sailed a few years ago and not many got on board.

Still, it’s an interesting blog post where Microsoft talks about something called “technical debt”. Chris Jackson of Microsoft writes in the blog, “In the past, Internet Explorer was optimized for simplicity at the expense of technical debt. Looking all the way back to Internet Explorer 6, the very concept of “standards mode” vs. “quirks mode” comes from this “easy button” approach. All existing content (which had no DOCTYPE) would get quirks mode; you got standards mode by adding a specific DOCTYPE.” In other words, while websites and the tech that goes behind it has advanced with the changing times, Internet Explorer hasn’t.

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