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Drop IE8 like it’s hot

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Drop IE8 like it’s hot

About myself

  • Name: Ben Ilegbodu
  • Country of Origin: United States
  • Occupation & Company: Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Eventbrite
  • URL to my website: http://www.benmvp.com
  • Twitter: @benmvp
  • Bio: Ben is currently a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer at Eventbrite, focusing primarily on front-end web development. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Stanford University in Computer Science with a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. Fresh out of college, he helped build out Zazzle’s front-end for nearly 9 years. Ultimately, he became the UI Architect responsible for building and maintaining Zazzle’s UI framework and contributing heavily to the open-source Uize JavaScript framework. Now at Eventbrite, Ben works on the Listings team charged with improving the main event details page used by every event that leverages the power of the Eventbrite ticketing platform. On the side, Ben loves playing around with new web development technologies and sharing his experiences with them.

About my topic

Ah, good ol’ Internet Explorer 8. Is a lack of browser upgrade ability on Windows XP a compelling enough reason to continue development for a browser so old that it doesn’t even support ES5, let alone HTML5, CSS3 or ES6? No! Shouldn’t you be building cool, new functionality instead of spending your time building, testing, and fixing bugs for a browser that even Microsoft has stopped supporting? Yes! In this session, we’ll build a case against supporting IE8. Let’s examine both empirical facts as well as qualitative feelings. Whether you’re a developer, designer or manager, you know you desperately want to stop supporting it. After this session you should be well-equipped to make a compelling argument for dropping IE8 like it’s hot.

Additional info

  • I need accommodation and travel from San Francisco, CA covered, please
  • I have yet to speak publicly at a conference, so I don't have any past videos that I can point to. However, I will be speaking at the Little Rock Tech Fest on October 16 on ES6, so I will have speaking experience by the time this conference rolls around. I have actually written a lengthy blog post on this very topic to serve as a space for idea refinement and feedback prior to giving the talk. You should be able to get a good idea of the content and direction of the talk from this blog post.