Web development/Compatibility

This case study demonstrates how web developers in the 2000s and early 2010s had to work around restrictions of outdated web browser versions that needed to be maintained due to popularity.

Fixing Web Design/Layout toggle for Internet Explorer 8 (2008) took surprisingly little patchwork in JavaScript and required no adjustment in the CSS and HTML, but Internet Explorer 7 (2006) was significantly more difficult. For example, ID attributes had to be added to avoid having to use slow polyfills for the class selector, and  became unavailable for the grid layout.

There are graphical limitations in old web browsers such as the lack of  where compensating through the use of raster graphics would not be worth it due to worse appearance on newer browsers when zoomed in, and less performance. The resource also aims to make understandable to today's Internet users why developers frequently complained about Internet Explorer.

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