Board Thread:Watercooler/@comment-27393108-20160105154547/@comment-24473195-20160107191536

Mazn wrote: Wikia doesn't support IE8? But why do they use jQuery 1.x then? The only good reason to do so would be to support IE<9... IE8 have limited support for some features. Also wikia uses jQuery 1.x because mediawiki comes built in with that support and some extensions or core features may require that old version, so it might require considerable work to port it to the newer version.

Anyway, WMF seems to have recently dropped javascript support for IE8 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118303) so it is possible that Wikia may follow soon.