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, <dp...@pgadmin.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 > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >
