Lazy loading iframes, support for IE and older browsers

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Lazy loading iframes, support for IE and older browsers

csdude55

5:43 pm on May 10, 2022 (gmt 0)

I had to give up on using the YouTube API, so I've gone back to embedding with iframes. But, of course, on a page with 20+ of them that's pretty slow.

I added the loading="lazy" attribute, which I guess works well? It's hard to tell, really. But of course support for that is limited:

[caniuse.com...]

Any suggestions for an alternative for IE or older browsers?

Brett_Tabke

1:02 am on May 21, 2022 (gmt 0)

Well, IE is quickly pushing everyone to the new Edge Browser. Support for IE next month. Most of the older browsers are slowly starting to fade as well. Newer TSL/SLL standards are making them pretty much nonfunctional.
You hit "chrome" and the variants and you've covered 90% of the humans that visit your site.
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csdude55

5:06 am on May 21, 2022 (gmt 0)

My demographic is all local, which means that I have age ranges from 12 to 100! Sadly, I still see people using Windows 98 coming to my site :-O Since those people are mostly older (and thereby worth more to advertisers), I have to go out of my way to make sure that everything's compatible for them with little to no confusion.

I guess that it's OK as long as the attribute doesn't throw an error on older browsers, though. It's been 10 days since I added it and no one has complained. Yet.

Brett_Tabke

11:25 am on May 21, 2022 (gmt 0)

> windows 98

if they aren't a verified human, I'd bet they are bots. lol

csdude55

6:15 pm on May 21, 2022 (gmt 0)

I've seen it twice this year, with my own eyes! LOL My dad still uses Windows XP, but only because I forced him to upgrade.

At the risk of over-generalizing, many of the senior citizens I've seen bought their computer, it works, and they have no reason to upgrade. And don't understand why they should.

Just last year I went to meet with a potential advertiser. The guy was in his early 50s, but when we went to his office he had to turn on his computer and wait for it to boot. He opened IE, Googled "google", then while at google.com he began to type in my website address...