User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: April 2, 2013/@comment-5884303-20130408210956

This is good news, not that I use many of the features that have been adjusted, but that progress is being made. It's nice to hear IE8 support is being dropped, since this could hopefully open up the opportunity for more modern features to be integrated into Wikia, such as HTML5 audio and video, canvas, and more.