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Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service

by mrskitch on 7/1/20, 7:59 PM with 1 comments

  • by adenta on 7/1/20, 8:06 PM

    Huge fan of Quik. I build https://terusama.com using modern development practices, and hit the point where _not_ supporting internet explorer was _not_ an option. We build software for the logistics industry, so freight brokers can schedule trucks at warehouses. Some people who need access to my scheduling website, were accessing our site through ancient Citrix VM's. "Just install chrome", wasn't even in the realm of possibility. If I make concessions to manually schedule appointments for these people, it's an incredibly slippery slope of making other concessions. Our value proposition of being entirely automated and saving people time also starts to lose its value.

    Quik is just insane, because I don't have to do anything, and am now compatible with Internet Explorer, in a secure way. Being able to take a modern web stack, and have, "IE compatibility" as a feature, is totally attractive to old-school enterprises, when that's your target clientele.