Things move fast on the web, and so when a developer discontinues support for an antiquated browser I don’t think this person should be considered an asshole or an enemy of free information. Rather, more developers need to take such stands. We don’t have government agencies on the web telling us how to do things (for the most part, at least), and we’re better off for it. This means all we’ve got left to fall back on to make sure everything progresses smoothly is social convention.
Things move fast on the web, and so when a developer discontinues support for an antiquated browser I don’t think this person should be considered an asshole or an enemy of free information. Rather, more developers need to take such stands. We don’t have government agencies on the web telling us how to do things (for the most part, at least), and we’re better off for it. This means all we’ve got left to fall back on to make sure everything progresses smoothly is social convention.
—Matt Langer on the responsibility of every web developer and hacker to further the web rather than to cater to technophobic backwards administrators and computer illiterates (in other words, dropping IE support).