Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:41 PM Dave Caughey <caugheyd(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Check the analytics... I think you'll find dropping it is a non-issue. In
> my own web service, I found that IE (all versions) constituted only about
> 1% of my users.
>

Good point - 1.9% of the visitors to the website were on IE this week. 1.8
of those were on IE11. We even had one hit from IE5...

By comparison, 72% of users were on Chrome, 13% on Firefox, with 5.5% each
for Safari and Edge.

>
> So I dropped support for IE (since it was preventing me from fully
> adopting ES6), and there was not a single complaint from my users.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
> On Tue., Apr. 7, 2020, 3:36 a.m. Dave Page, <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Internet Explorer has long been superseded by Microsoft Edge, and even
>> that has recently moved to using Chromium as it's core engine. Version 11
>> was originally released in 2013, and though Microsoft have committed to
>> supporting it until 2025, as far as I can tell there have been no notable
>> new features in almost it's entire lifetime, and certainly in recent years
>> Microsoft have only been releasing security fixes.
>>
>> As you can imagine, supporting Internet Explorer has a non-trivial cost
>> to it for the pgAdmin project. Not only do we need to test with it as well
>> as Edge, but we also need to write code, CSS and HTML that is fully
>> compatible with what essentially is a 7 year old browser. By comparison,
>> for all other browsers we typically aim to support releases no more than 2
>> years old.
>>
>> I therefore propose that we officially drop support for Internet
>> Explorer. Practically this means that we would not test with it, and anyone
>> reporting a bug with it would be told to use an alternate browser.
>>
>> Objections/comments please?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Dave Page
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>>
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>>
>

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