Yes, there is an official site urging you to break up with IE8. Not just to make us developers lives so much easier — and one less browser to test — but because, little one, it’s definitely way past time. They even make it fun! Start the breakup today!
From the official site:
#BREAKUPWITHIE8
You’ve spent six long, excruciating years trying to extract joy from your tired relationship with IE8. That’s a lifetime of cache-clearing, vm-running despair you’ll never get back. March 19, 2015 was your six year anniversary, so we think it’s time to cut your losses and start seeing other browsers.
To put it in perspective, six years in internet time is something like 20 cat years, which makes Internet Explorer 8 very old indeed. Also, when IE8 came out, Susan Boyle was cool. Just sayin’.
(Now we put our serious face on)
For whatever reason, Internet Explorer 8 recently increased in browser share… which is a real kick in the pants for your garden-variety webhead. The sooner we all stop supporting it, the sooner we can collectively work on a more awesome interweb.
Join the intervention and stop supporting IE8. It’s time for an upgrade.