well, maybe my previous team would have finished their migration of IE by then
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
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Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
#52I am just waiting to hear back from a customer on a support ticket request where functionality in my app is not working as expected.
They sent me a screenshot of what should be a form in a modal but the modal has failed to load so it has loaded just the form in a new page looking pretty unstyled. The JS for the modal uses fetch() so possibly why it broke.
I'm 95% sure that the browser in the screenshot is IE10. I pointed them to this announcement if only to make them aware of the security risks in running IE10 but it beggars belief that anyone would choose to run IE10, individual or enterprise.
Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
#53And yet when I see a site that asks you to use Chrome I know that the true spirit of IE lives on.
The other day I had a website accuse me of using an outdated version of Safari (I was using Firefox version 88).
Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
#54It is nice to see the long internet nightmare known as Internet Explorer come to a conclusion. What is the next thing we should wish to see die on the internet?
Its failures aside, some of the things that Internet Explorer have brought to our life:
- DOM
- CSS (first browser to support CSS, to be more specific)
- Events
- IFRAMEs
- AJAX
- favicon.ico
Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
> currently in development program requires IE + Java applets. Why? Surely it's not a greenfield project.
It's just a defense program with a very very long timeline.
I would worry about long term availability.
For that type of project, it might be worth it to write a detailed spec for how the back-end talks to the front-end so in the future it's possible to write a more modern client.
Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
#56That's a real end of an era. Internet Explorer's legacy engine is going to be relegated to old grayhair horror stories. Not unhappy it's going away, but it feels like a big chapter is closing.
relegated to old grayhair horror stories. The real shame of IE's passing is that we'll forget the lessons we learned and therefore repeat that particular disaster. It's already happening. I'd be happy to relegate the nightmare of IE to old war stories... except the same thing is happening today! Different method, nearly the same end result. We nearly lost the damn open web to the horror of IE6 and the peak "embrace,…
You forgot about Safari, although it's not as atrociuos as IE was.
Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
#57I was assigned a Trello task the other day to go ahead and put up a warning to IE users (until August).
It was one of the most satisfying tasks I've ever received.
I can't wait to go through the app with a machete and whack away all the sloppy IE compatibility code.
Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
#58And yet when I see a site that asks you to use Chrome I know that the true spirit of IE lives on.
"Please apply using Chrome, as applications are only supported using Chrome on desktop."
-- lever.co job posting
Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
#59I am just waiting to hear back from a customer on a support ticket request where functionality in my app is not working as expected. They sent me a screenshot of what should be a form in a modal but the modal has failed to load so it has loaded just the form in a new page looking pretty unstyled. The JS for the modal uses fetch() so possibly why it broke. I'm 95% sure that the browser in the screenshot is IE10. I poi…
Not accusing you of this, but the primary reason people run outdated software is a really problematic insistence, mostly by front-end people, on using the new-and-shiny instead of the tried-and-true. Breaking changes galore - so people stick with the past as much as possible.
Example: Office 365 OWA doesn't work well on modern browsers other than the latest version of Edge on Windows. But it does work fine on browsers that are older or pretend to be older! I'm technical enough to spoof my user agent, but Mom & Pop are just going to say "I don't like the new one, it broke stuff" and that will be that.
Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
#60I work on a SaaS app in the healthcare space where IE11 is the preferred browser, and was getting worried watching all of our favorite tools begin to completely drop IE11 support (Tailwinds, Bootstrap) - effectively punishing us for the sins our customers IT orgs. This brings me hope. But only a little. I’m sure they’ll find a way to keep running it.
Isn't IE11 support a potential HIPPA violation?