User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: December 11, 2012/@comment-3441771-20121212034223/@comment-3508190-20121214055408

IE8 is the new IE6. The obsolete browser that just won't go away. It's tempting to dismiss it, but it has a larger marketshare than IE9 and IE10 combined (20% or so - depending on who you ask).

I suspect we'll have to put up with IE8 for a few more years.