Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer

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.

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!
>
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