I highly recommend dropping IE11 as well in the next release. It will be no
longer supported by Microsoft and GMail and Google Workspace will be
dropping its support in March 15:
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2020/12/ending-support-for-ie11-for-all-google-workspace.html

That means internally we will stop testing and developing for it and things
may start breaking over time.

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 1:21 AM Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Fwiw, a change in GWT emulation of longBitsToDouble and doubleBitsToLong (
> https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/c/gwt/+/23140) has landed that uses
> Typed Arrays. This means they won't work in IE8 and IE9 anymore:
> https://caniuse.com/typedarrays
>
> Maybe it's time to remove support for those old versions? (it's long
> overdue if you ask me)
> I'd actually go as far as only keeping IE11 for the time being (which uses
> the gecko1_8 permutation).
> A first step might be to disable them by default, like we did for the ie6
> and opera permutations in 2.6, removed in 2.7.
>
> Fwiw, for a while now, gwt-maven-archetypes has had <set-property
> name="user.agent" value="ie10,gecko1_8,safari" /> (i.e. it already disabled
> ie8 and ie9), and I'll change it to gecko1_8,safari soon.
>
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