Today I removed the last Internet Explorer integrations on my website.
Those using Internet Explorer can no longer find direct links to categories or fresh blog posts on the Windows taskbar Jump List of the pinned version of this website. Users of Windows supporting tiles will no longer see an RSS-powered feed of recent posts.
No one was using these features, not even yours truly. But it was nice to have, particularly for pinned sites like social networks or email/productivity services.
If you are still using Internet Explorer, please don’t.
Today I opened IE for the first time in probably 5 years and immediately lost whatever small bit of nostalgia remained when I was presented with a crowded overlapping interface, multiple areas crying for attention, and a notification that a browser add in that I don’t even want is ready to use. It was overwhelming.
When navigating to my own website and pausing for brief a chuckle at the most relevant browser ad ever, I see that for my pinning it to the taskbar still provides suitably easily access and some UI branding in the browser, but no Jump List functionality remains.
About the only thing I miss about IE is the spinning globe when pages were loading, before the XP wavy flag replaced it. That globe throbber carries some emotions with it.
