Yes, outdated browsers is the devil that developers know.
We hackers are frequently solution driven, with a heavy focus on tools. This quickly tailspins into goals focused on incremental changes (load faster, show more info, integrate with this other thing) instead of stepping back and looking at the larger picture (who are my users and what do they want to do?)
Fighting for 3 hours to get your graph to load properly on IE7/8/9 is silly if a table displays the information more clearly and is more accessible.
We hackers are frequently solution driven, with a heavy focus on tools. This quickly tailspins into goals focused on incremental changes (load faster, show more info, integrate with this other thing) instead of stepping back and looking at the larger picture (who are my users and what do they want to do?)
Fighting for 3 hours to get your graph to load properly on IE7/8/9 is silly if a table displays the information more clearly and is more accessible.