> I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome...
Yes I also long for the return of the IE6 days when only one browser mattered and what it did was law. Not.
Seriously folks we've already done software monopolies (not just in browsers either), it always ends up in tears. If a browser is terrible refuse to support it or ask for extra time/money for its support, but do not condone, suggest or recommend browser monopoly.
For the last few years now, we've been charging at least 20% more for the front-end dev portion of a job when IE8 support was required beyond graceful degradation.
2015 is really the year where we saw the majority of our clients drop support for IE8 altogether. Most of them showed sub-2% browser share and dropping fast in their analytics..
Yes I also long for the return of the IE6 days when only one browser mattered and what it did was law. Not.
Seriously folks we've already done software monopolies (not just in browsers either), it always ends up in tears. If a browser is terrible refuse to support it or ask for extra time/money for its support, but do not condone, suggest or recommend browser monopoly.