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

Post by claviska » Thu, May 20, 2021, 1:15 AM UTC

munk-a wrote: post #107

detritus wrote: post #86

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Going a bit further back, IE 5 and 6 were the best browser by far. Strange for me to think that my now-beloved Firefox has its heritage embedded in Netscape, which at the same time as IE5 was an absolute pig. - ed for some reason I have it in mind as IE5.5 specifically that was The Great IE.

I have a version of myself aged in their twenties and working in web development that really wants to stab anyone believing that IE6 was the best browser. I won't argue that it wasn't decent at launch, but MS kept support for that browser around way too long and failed to actually roll out support for new features that customers desired. I believe it was the era of IE6 specifically that led to the proliferation of to…

Post by whakim » Thu, May 20, 2021, 1:24 AM UTC

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By "I wish that emails could just work like everything else on the web" I meant modern web HTML/CSS - I was replying to the GP - not the full set of browser capabilities such as Javascript. I suppose it's possible you'd also want to exclude certain CSS abilities, but at that point you're now diverging from the web CSS spec which isn't ideal either.

Web standard is continuously evolving but email don't need most of them. I think whitelist approach is better than blacklist for email.

Post by banana_giraffe » Thu, May 20, 2021, 1:28 AM UTC

cesarb wrote: post #38

chungy wrote: post #33

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The very first version was a native application for Windows 95 and 98 (First Edition). It was retired in short order in favor of the ActiveX page.

Interesting. Do you know of anywhere that has screenshots of that native application, for curiosity's sake? When I first used Windows Update in Windows 9x, it was already a (very slow) ActiveX applet.

Post by klausnrooster » Thu, May 20, 2021, 1:43 AM UTC

Post by mr_toad » Thu, May 20, 2021, 2:33 AM UTC

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I think it will. Just tested the IE mode, you need to manually enable it for every time. I think it's annoying enough.

In an AD environment, you can push out a centralized list that is easy to update. We've found that IE Mode unfortunately works very well. I wish it didn't work so well because it allows us to keep these IE sites around indefinitely.