Nevada’s election map stuck loading because it runs on Internet Explorer

Description

The image is a cropped, stylized U.S. election-style map of western states. Each state is filled either red or blue and labeled with its postal abbreviation: WA, OR, CA, ID, MT, WY, UT, CO, AZ and NM. Nevada is shown in a very light blue and, instead of the “NV” label, its silhouette contains the classic Internet Explorer lowercase "e" logo with the yellow ring. The joke suggests Nevada is still "loading" results because it relies on the infamously slow, deprecated Internet Explorer, a tongue-in-cheek nod to legacy browser performance, rendering quirks and the pain of supporting outdated tech in web development. Developers recognize the humor in associating critical workflows with an obsolete browser notorious for compatibility issues and sluggish JavaScript execution

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DeveloperHumor BrowserCompatibility WebDevelopment Frontend BrowserQuirks BrowserWars PerformanceIssues

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The rest of the country is streaming results over WebSockets; Nevada wired its vote counter through an IE6 ActiveX progress bar, so the election is bottlenecked on a synchronous XHR from 2004

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The rest of the country is streaming results over WebSockets; Nevada wired its vote counter through an IE6 ActiveX progress bar, so the election is bottlenecked on a synchronous XHR from 2004
Anonymous

Just like how Nevada is where people go to gamble away their life savings, Internet Explorer is where developers go to gamble away their sanity trying to support CSS grid layouts that were standardized a decade ago
Anonymous

Ah yes, Nevada - the state developers visit as often as they test in IE: never. Though to be fair, both have a reputation for unpredictable behavior, requiring special handling, and making you question your life choices. At least Nevada eventually adopted modern standards
Anonymous

Blue states innovate in React; their enterprises still render in IE Quirks Mode
Anonymous

We dropped IE nationwide; Nevada’s the exception - some casino compliance portal still hinges on an ActiveX control signed with SHA‑1 and a VB6 “SDK” nobody wants to open without gloves
Anonymous

Nevada must be rendering in IE11 - our Promise to get results never resolves because a synchronous XHR is blocking the event loop
@Wild_Nixon 5y

i don't understand(
1. @nameToString 5y
  
  There are presidential elections at the united states of america, one of the states, nevada, is taking a lot of time to count the votes. There's the meme that internet explorer is so slow so that's the joke
  
  @Wild_Nixon 5y
  
  😂 Thank You for explaining!
@obemenko 5y

It's not true, Nevada is way faster than freaking Explorer
@nameToString 5y

You're welcome
@ffngs 5y

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