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Official IE11 end-of-life in 2 days

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Re: Official IE11 end-of-life in 2 days

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Post by anotherevan »

carey wrote: post #28
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #9

I was working a defense project last year where the whole UI is a java applet that requires IE. I wonder if they're still charging ahead with the implementation.

If it’s just for Java that’s not really a problem. They might be able to run the applet directly with appletviewer, or repackage it for Java Web Start. Otherwise, CheerpJ has a solution for continuing to run the applet in the browser by converting it to WASM.

Just to note that Java Web Start is also discontinued.

Karakun are on it though: https://openwebstart.com/

Re: Official IE11 end-of-life in 2 days

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Post by technion »

_-david-_ wrote: post #50
dane-pgp wrote: post #2

As the linked FAQ states: "For supported operating systems, Internet Explorer 11 will continue receiving security updates and technical support for the lifecycle of the Windows version on which it is installed." and sadly IE11 came bundled with even Windows Server 2022, so if you're creating a website for users who spend all their time administrating Windows servers, you still have to support IE11...

Do people browse the internet on their servers? What exactly is the use case?

Most common thing is Citrix/rds server environments. Plenty of orgs have all staff working on serversvas desktops.

I was watching a doctor yesterday use a patient admin portal in IE.

Re: Official IE11 end-of-life in 2 days

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Post by OJFord »

breunigs wrote: post #30

On a related note, you can email Microsoft to add your domain to the "needs Edge" list: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform... If you try to open a host from that list in IE11, it will open in Edge instead. The process really is just sending them an email, so I did it for my personal site which still received occasional IE11 traffic from "yesteryear's megacorp" IP ranges. I don't have enough…

Funny process for it! I wonder why not just a TXT record? No list to maintain for them, no email admin, quicker (from desire to in-effect), etc.

Re: Official IE11 end-of-life in 2 days

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Post by zinekeller »

OJFord wrote: post #53
breunigs wrote: post #30

On a related note, you can email Microsoft to add your domain to the "needs Edge" list: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform... If you try to open a host from that list in IE11, it will open in Edge instead. The process really is just sending them an email, so I did it for my personal site which still received occasional IE11 traffic from "yesteryear's megacorp" IP ranges. I don't have enough…

Funny process for it! I wonder why not just a TXT record? No list to maintain for them, no email admin, quicker (from desire to in-effect), etc.

> I wonder why not just a TXT record?

Something similar to robots.txt? Yeah, I'm not sure why MS didn't allow that one. Actual DNS TXT records? Oh boy, you haven't experience enterprise-level DNS filtering (or let's be honest stupidity).

Re: Official IE11 end-of-life in 2 days

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Post by OJFord »

zinekeller wrote: post #54
OJFord wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny process for it! I wonder why not just a TXT record? No list to maintain for them, no email admin, quicker (from desire to in-effect), etc.

> I wonder why not just a TXT record? Something similar to robots.txt? Yeah, I'm not sure why MS didn't allow that one. Actual DNS TXT records? Oh boy, you haven't experience enterprise-level DNS filtering (or let's be honest stupidity).

I did mean the latter, but true /.well-known/ms-needs-edge or something would be better too.

> Oh boy, you haven't experience enterprise-level DNS filtering (or let's be honest stupidity).

Seems not!

Re: Official IE11 end-of-life in 2 days

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Post by zinekeller »

OJFord wrote: post #55
zinekeller wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wonder why not just a TXT record? Something similar to robots.txt? Yeah, I'm not sure why MS didn't allow that one. Actual DNS TXT records? Oh boy, you haven't experience enterprise-level DNS filtering (or let's be honest stupidity).

I did mean the latter, but true /.well-known/ms-needs-edge or something would be better too. > Oh boy, you haven't experience enterprise-level DNS filtering (or let's be honest stupidity). Seems not!

Yeah, I won't name names but a well-known firewall provider also interecpts MX records (apparently to prevent spam mails sent from the firewalled network, but blocking port 25 would be much better if that's your goal).
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