Re: [csswg-drafts] Let’s Define CSS 4 (#4770)

>  I've talked to a very senior developer who had never heard of flexbox, 5 years after the fact. Not mastering it fully...fine. Not having heard of it? What!? It means actively ignoring pretty much any web development news for years.

While I agree that never heard of flexbox after 5 years is pretty bizarre, the purpose of this proposal isn't just for the developers to keep up.

I am a vendor of a large cooperation that insists on supporting IE10 even though statistics show very little (<0.5%) usage in my country. You will never believe what I saw when I visit their office – most employees browsing with IE on their machine in their own cubicle. I know what you are thinking, but NO, it wasn't because of IT limitation or company policy. In fact, they are allowed to use Chrome or Firefox. It was because THEY LOVE IE. They refuse to switch, granted most of them are in their mid-40s.

So back to the topic, perhaps CSS4 could help to push their mindset towards a more secure and better web. During pitch meeting, it's hard to tell them we can't support IE10 because we want CSS Variables and Grid Layout. Stakeholders doesn't know and doesn't care. They just want to support as many browsers as they could (very typical FOMO mindset) and they have the dollars to throw.

However, if we could tell them we can't support IE10 because it doesn't have the latest CSS4 technology and throw them the "Are you sure you want your newly created website to be behind your competitors because of that?" question, that might ponder them (of course, on top of the fact that IE10 is completely obsolete and vulnerable).



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