Internet Explorer Finally Catches Up to 2012

Description

The image features the iconic blue 'e' logo of Internet Explorer, with its golden swirl, set against a plain white background. Overlaying the top of the logo is the text in a bold, white, sans-serif font with a black outline: 'HEARD YOU GUYS WERE POSTING 2012 MEMES TODAY'. At the bottom, in the same font, is the single word 'AWESOME'. This is a classic example of the 'Slowpoke' meme, where a character or entity is comically late to a trend or event. The humor comes from the well-known and long-standing reputation of Internet Explorer as being an extremely slow and outdated web browser. For experienced developers, this meme is a nostalgic jab at the countless hours spent debugging compatibility issues for IE, a browser that consistently lagged behind web standards and performance, making it a punchline in the tech community long after its peak

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InternetExplorerSupport BrowserWars BrowserCompatibility BrowserQuirks Frontend WebDevelopment MicrosoftProducts TechNostalgia

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Internet Explorer's JavaScript engine just sent a callback, confirming it has successfully parsed the jQuery 1.0 release notes

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Internet Explorer's JavaScript engine just sent a callback, confirming it has successfully parsed the jQuery 1.0 release notes
Anonymous

Internet Explorer sliding into a 2012 meme thread is the same vibe as Legal asking if our WebAssembly pipeline can “gracefully degrade” to IE9 - apparently temporal paradoxes are now feature requests
Anonymous

Internet Explorer finally loading that meme from 2012 is still faster than convincing management to drop IE11 support in 2024 - at least the meme eventually renders without a polyfill
Anonymous

Internet Explorer walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'Sorry, we stopped serving you in 2016.' IE replies, 'That's okay, I just got the message.' This perfectly encapsulates every senior engineer's experience maintaining legacy enterprise applications where IE11 support was a contractual obligation, complete with separate CSS files, conditional comments, and the existential dread of seeing 'User-Agent: MSIE' in production logs well into 2020
Anonymous

IE: The browser that made conditional comments our daily rosary and Quirks Mode eternal
Anonymous

Internet Explorer implements eventual consistency for web standards - given enough reloads, everything converges to Quirks Mode circa 2012
Anonymous

IE arriving for “2012 memes today” is why our support matrix still lists IE11, our build emits a nomodule bundle, and the app boots behind an X‑UA‑Compatible incantation
@Roman_Millen 5y

Heard you guys were posting IE memes today. Awesome.
@Roman_Millen 5y

Jokes aside, this browser is a fucking joke (no pun intended). I tried watching Twitch streams in it and it was terrible — not only IE had tremendous lags itself, but it also managed to make my Win10 lag with it. And that's considering the fact I have Ryzen 7 and 32 gigs of RAM. I mean, seriously???
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  Twitch?
2. Deleted Account 5y
  
  i mean, why winholes in the first place
3. @doodguy1991 5y
  
  Twitch in itself is awful. If you try to run an adblocker it will try to cuck you. It has a lot of hidden scripts and extra crap that has nothing to do with streaming content in order to farm data or shove ads in your face. Besides, IE is meant for legacy applications and websites, not for running modern crap
  
  @Roman_Millen 5y
  
  I fully agree on the fact that Twitch is a piece of shit. But gotta disagree on some other points. First, I dunno what ad-blockers are you mentioning, but I'm using uBlock Origin and AdGuard, and never had any problems with them on Twitch whatsoever. Second, I don't say anything about IE being not suited for modern sites, but the fact that its own lags and freezes manage to hang all OS with it just doesn't fit in my head.
  
  @doodguy1991 5y
  
  IE causing the whole OS to hang I think has to do with the browser and the OS being part of each other rather than an application you can just install and uninstall freely.
  
  @Roman_Millen 5y
  
  Naturally. MS wouldn't still keep IE in Win10 for nothing — obviously it's a vital dependency not so easily replaced. I just don't get how fucked up can this OS be to lag and freeze on such a (relatively) tiny thing even having the powerful hardware.
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  "we've tried removing it, but it just keeps crashing without it"
@Roman_Millen 5y

Yeah, Twitch. Is it a forbidden word?