On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:41 PM Dave Caughey <caugh...@gmail.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, <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 >> > -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company