The product we're selling is doing smartcards issuances via the browser, using an ActiveX app, so the user has to use IE. We've asked multiple time for the budget to do the change to a modern browser, but the POs has refused each time.
I recently had to buy an Authenticode code-signing certificate. The only way to download it was to add it to the browser certificate store and export it from there. And the only browser that the vendor supported for the add-to-store operation was IE.
I worked in shipping and in fact the UPS shipping software will open IE for certain pickup booking tasks. I tried to use firefox or chrome with the same URL and it didn’t work.
During work there was never time to look into it in more detail, so there might be a workaround, but the general quality (or the lack thereof) when it comes to shipping software didn’t really convince me.
You could get IETab and set it to open those sites with it.
It seems the risk is using IE for other tasks and getting exposed to malicious code, and the main reason you would open things other than the site requiring IE is that it's the browser you keep open?
I can not use the Croatian government website,[1] where one can buy a fishing licence, with anything other than IE. Despite the website insinuating that other browsers will work, if I just enable cookies (which I have!), only IE is successful.
This seems to be the case for most banks in Japan. Also a lot of government services. Last year I ended up posting some documents to immigration because I could not get their online form to work.
I remember, for immigration process, having to use IE to download a PDF form and install Adobe Reader to open it. Strangely enough, it also had to be opened on a desktop machine, laptops are NG.
That explains why the jquery based script I wrote to change the alpha channel of an image didn't work in Edge whereas it worked in all the other modern browsers I tested.
It reads like a hit piece to get people to switch away from Edge in case they think it's the same thing as IE. Everyone still calls it "IE", even though they're referring to Edge.
> Everyone still calls it "IE", even though they're referring to Edge.
Citation? Is this actually a thing?
Honestly I don’t believe you, mostly because your scenario involves people actually using Edge in sufficient volume that “everyone calls it IE” is supposed to be a meaningful thing.
My anecdata, everyone who I know who uses Edge (2 people, my parents on their Windows 10 machines) still call it Internet Explorer. They're tech savvy people too, but built up a habit with their new laptops. Hardly statistically significant I know though.
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