I am not shocked that gog.com doesn’t work correctly in IE 11, as that’s quite an old browser by now, even though it still receives security updates. I am developing a website currently and I am thankful that we don’t support IE anymore. Otherwise we would terribly limit ourselves by not using newer JavaScript and CSS features and technologies, and make the site worse for everyone. And it’s just too much work to make an IE11-specific version

I never had a problem with the pre-installation of IE. I struggled to understand the reason that it was found to be anti-competitive - to me, it's just like Notepad being pre-installed - you don't have to use it and it's there if you want it.

It feels no different from apple pre-installing safari on their iThings.

*sigh*

This thread is not about which browsers some of you like or don't like. There are browsers that I don't like, but I don't go on and on about why you shouldn't use them.
This thread is about GOG's broken site not working in IE11. Despite what some of you try to convince yourselves, IE11 is a major browser.

Again... every other site I see works fine in IE11. It's only GOG that has the problem.

This website works badly, no matter which browser you use; it is just worse on some than on others.

Yes - I think the big issues on IE are the animated elements. I agree with you that IE11 is still used by a lot of people as a primary browser - including a lot of corporations. I would like GoG to fix their site to work with ie - as a lot of the elements that are incompatible do not add to the browsing experience - such as the autoplaying videos. However, based on past performance, GoG seem unlikely to do so.


GoG is also the only site I am aware of that doesn't work properly on IE. Whether this will still be true in 12 months I don't know.

Internet Explorer and wonders why the internet is shit. Haha cute.

You expected anything else? Bashing IE is cool, and the typical result whenever any of us mentions it, long since I treated it as much more than static if the matter comes up. And using the latest technologies is required of course, even if it's in no way necessary and on a store, which should be chasing after users instead of requiring anything of them, and a store originally built on nostalgia and targeting people who even reject new trends.
Funny thing is that if GOG would make a simpler site that'd also work on less-modern browsers, generally doing the processing server side and presenting mostly plain HTML and just the needed CSS to the browser, they'd likely also out of necessity do without some of the more problematic "features", like autoplaying videos, and get rid of many of the bugs that keep popping up, which tend to often be a result of Angular having kittens.
They actually clearly said they won't.

While I agree that IE is still used by many people that is primarily for legacy support. Microsoft officially deprecated IE a while ago. The only reason they still provide some support for it is because they haven’t updated some of their enterprise web consoles to work properly on edge. They moved exchange to a web console that only works properly in IE after deprecating IE.

Once they fix some of their enterprise legacy requirements there won’t be any new security updates for IE.

BTW,
THIS is not a Black Friday Fiasco, THIS is a Black Friday Fiasco.

That just looks like a normal Saturday at Walmart.

FWIW, I am having problems with the new design in Chrome.
Windows 10, Chrome 64 bit v 70.0.3538.102
I cannot see the sales banner nor the news one.
When I click on the continuation selection (those five lines in the bottom of the section) the games flash quicklly from right to left, and then all I see is the very edge of the last one on the left of my screen
screenshot attached.

This is new phenomena since the new deisgn

https://imgur.com/a/pyqw831

Indeed, and the fact they're still releasing security patches is great, but it doesn't stop it being obsolete.

Do you remember when HTML5 was a fancy new feature? What about Macromedia Flash? The web is constantly getting fancy new features and as they become mainstream you'll miss out on more and more.

The fact that IE11 is the default browser of W8.1 is irrelevant, most people immediately switch to another browser, one that is up to date with modern web standards.
Do you think either of my posts were telling you you shouldn't like IE11? No, my posts are about why you should expect fewer and fewer sites to work.

Not so much shouldn't like, as much as shouldn't use, in my case. Microsoft is strongly suggesting emigrating to Edge themselves in various FAQs and documents.

IE isn't by any count a major browser. The statistics give it only around 3% or all around network traffic and that number is going down by the month. It is one browser most web developers don't even test sites during development.

Well exactly, personal taste has nothing to do with it - it's simply inadvisable to use as it is continuing to fall behind on web standards.