When Internet Explorer tries to keep up with modern browsers

Description

Two - panel meme. Panel 1 (upper-left) shows a child barely peeking above tall grass; the familiar blue “e” Internet Explorer logo is pasted over the child’s face so only the eyes are visible, implying slow, cautious movement. Panel 2 (upper-right) shows the blurred head of a sprinting cheetah, symbolising speed; no text appears anywhere. The entire lower half of the screenshot is blacked out, indicating the original meme was cropped. Technically, the joke contrasts Internet Explorer’s notoriously sluggish, legacy rendering engine against the performance of modern browsers, a pain point every front-end or web developer has endured when chasing cross-browser compatibility

Common Tags

BrowserWars Frontend BrowserCompatibility InternetExplorerSupport FrontendPainPoints WebDevelopment LegacySupport WebDevelopmentHistory

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Modern browsers are already shipping the payload over HTTP/3 while IE11 is off in the tall grass asking if ‘let’ is a syntax error - proof that 1% legacy traffic can consume 99% of your sprint

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Modern browsers are already shipping the payload over HTTP/3 while IE11 is off in the tall grass asking if ‘let’ is a syntax error - proof that 1% legacy traffic can consume 99% of your sprint
Anonymous

After 15 years of writing IE-specific CSS hacks and polyfills, senior engineers still wake up in cold sweats hearing 'it works fine in IE11' - only to remember Microsoft finally killed it in 2022, yet somehow enterprise clients are still running ActiveX controls in compatibility mode
Anonymous

The headband upgrade perfectly captures every frontend developer's journey: from spending 40% of development time writing IE-specific CSS hacks and polyfills, to finally being able to use modern JavaScript features without Babel transpiling everything back to ES5. The real tragedy? Some enterprise clients are still wearing that first headband in production, forcing you to maintain two completely different codebases because 'our users haven't upgraded yet.'
Anonymous

VR grass: 4K ray-traced, 120 FPS, GPU meltdown on wind sim. Real grass: native render, infinite FPS, crashes only in thunderstorms
Anonymous

We retired IE - then spent a quarter wiring Edge’s IE mode to keep one revenue-critical ActiveX and VBScript alive; congrats, we just microserviced a museum exhibit
Anonymous

Every 'IE11 support' checkbox is a time machine - compile to ES5, translate CSS Grid to -ms-grid, resurrect attachEvent, and ship a polyfill bundle to appease the last Windows 7 kiosk
@mr_oz 5y

Lollolol
@Eugene1319 5y

just wait and it will be downloaded
1. @sylfn 5y
  
  he waited
  
  @Eugene1319 5y
  
  keep calm, just wait some time more, everything will be ok
  
  @furqan 5y
  
  Hodl!
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@nipunattri1 5y

The image is being loaded on internet explorer (see the picture)
@wizaral 5y

That was good
@Josiyahse 5y

I'm done.