From: Jack Royal-Gordon <jac...@pobox.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:45 AM
To: Dave Caughey <caugh...@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org>; pgAdmin Support
<pgadmin-supp...@postgresql.org>; pgadmin-hackers
<pgadmin-hack...@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer
I’ve had a similar response from not supporting IE since about 2016. A couple
users asked about it and had no problem when I told them we didn’t support it.
Mostly, they switched to Chrome.
👍👍
On Apr 7, 2020, at 4:41 AM, Dave Caughey
<caugh...@gmail.com<mailto: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.
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<mailto: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!
[Ken Benson]
The only caution is – I’ve recently (within the past several months) dealt with
clients that are locked into IE11 – as a corporate rule.
Ken Benson | ken @ infowerks-dot-com
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