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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

#64

My current employer will be devastated. The user interface of our currently in development program requires IE + Java applets.

This sounds like the stuff I worked on 15 years ago in the oil and gas sector (in fairness, IE + applets _were_ the best choice at the time).

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Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022

#66
From a business standpoint, getting businesses who are dependent on IE 11 to adopt Edge is a great idea. This will certainly help Microsoft's browser share. On the other hand, A LOT of IE users do so because they are running version of Windows that themselves are no longer supported. I'm going to be very wary of what my grocery store's POS system is running on in about a year.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022

#67

I 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.

We relaunched a 12 year old SaaS app last month and dropped IE support. It was the most wonderful feeling to remove support for that dumpster fire out of the repos.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022

#69
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That'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,…

Chromium is open source…

Seems like a better approach in every way than the old mosaic/trident closed source mess.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022

#70

FYI, You can send an email to Microsoft requesting the your website will automatically reopen in Edge when someone visits it with IE https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform...

TIL - this is cool!

Do you know if there's a way to see that XML list they mention anywhere publically? I can't find a link to it on that page.

I guess it should be possible to spin up IE11 in a VM on macOS and inspect the network, but would be nice to take a look and see which sites are on there.

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