{"id":16473,"date":"2012-07-14T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16473"},"modified":"2012-07-14T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T11:01:32","slug":"jquery-2-0-will-drop-support-for-msie-6-7-and-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/14\/jquery-2-0-will-drop-support-for-msie-6-7-and-8\/","title":{"rendered":"jQuery 2.0 will drop support for MSIE 6, 7, and 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/07\/13\/1936205\/jquery-20-will-drop-support-for-ie-6-7-8\">Slashdot reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The developers of jQuery <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jquery.com\/2012\/06\/28\/jquery-core-version-1-9-and-beyond\/\">recently announced in a blog entry<\/a> that jQuery 2.0 will <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2012\/07\/jquery-2-0-javascript-framework-to-drop-support-for-ie-6-7-and-8\/\">drop support for legacy versions of Internet Explorer<\/a>. The release will come in parallel with version 1.9, however, which will include support for older versions of IE. The versions will offer full API compatibility, but 2.0 will &#8216;benefit from a faster implementation that doesn&#8217;t have to rely on legacy compatibility hacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A few comments mentioned that dropping support for MSIE 6 and 7 is fine, but MSIE 8 is still widely used by people with Windows XP. \u00a0The solution to the problem seems to be conditional tags. \u00a0Since jQuery 2.0 will have fully compatible APIs to jQuery 1.9, something along the lines of:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: xml; light: true; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n\r\n&lt;!--&#x5B;if lt IE 9]&gt;\r\n&lt;script src=&quot;jquery-1.9.0.js&quot;&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\r\n&lt;!&#x5B;endif]--&gt;\r\n&lt;!--&#x5B;if gte IE 9]&gt;\r\n&lt;script src=&quot;jquery-2.0.0.js&quot;&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\r\n&lt;!--&lt;!&#x5B;endif]--&gt;\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>should solve the problem.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Slashdot reports: The developers of jQuery recently announced in a blog entry that jQuery 2.0 will drop support for legacy versions of Internet Explorer. The release will come in parallel with version 1.9, however, which will include support for older versions of IE. The versions will offer full API compatibility, but 2.0 will &#8216;benefit from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/14\/jquery-2-0-will-drop-support-for-msie-6-7-and-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">jQuery 2.0 will drop support for MSIE 6, 7, and 8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[918,20,1139,3044,2303,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-announcements","tag-browsers","tag-javascript","tag-jquery","tag-microsoft-internet-explorer","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23722,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/18\/microsoft-doubles-msie-web-pain-with-spartan\/","url_meta":{"origin":16473,"position":0},"title":"Microsoft doubles MSIE web pain with Spartan","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Verge reports that Microsoft is killing its Internet Explorer brand. \u00a0Don't confuse it with the browser though. 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