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Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by baud147258 »

timeimp wrote: post #5

Does anyone work in an “enterprise” environment who have been dreading this day? Any apps / mainframes / industrials systems that needs IE to run?

the software I'm working on still supports IE, but after years of pushing for it, in 2020 management let us start work on supporting Chrome/Edge. Though we'll have to see how our automated testing suite will be impacted by those redirections (FTA: "opening Internet Explorer will progressively redirect users to Microsoft Edge with IE mode."), because we're still testing with IE, though that's also planned to be phased out this summer.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by open-paren »

I argue that moving it “out of support” doesn't mean anything for what browsers you have to support. Users and businesses still using IE11 aren't exactly those that are on the top of their IT policy game, so I doubt they will be jumping when the browser is “no longer supported by Microsoft.”

Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by PaulWaldman »

timeimp wrote: post #5

Does anyone work in an “enterprise” environment who have been dreading this day? Any apps / mainframes / industrials systems that needs IE to run?

We frequently encounter legacy industrial automation applications that use IE inside an ActiveX container. There are a few third-party apps that attempt to bundle Chrome or Edge inside an ActiveX object, but we've had limited success.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by lemoncookiechip »

From a previous thread (lost link): "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."

The King is dead, long live the King.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by darkwinx »

DrBazza wrote: post #7

Having lived through the MS/IE6 era of being the monopoly web browser, and effectively determined and held back web standards for a long time, it's bittersweet that we now have Google/Chrome era. At least it's not hard wired into the OS and we're not going through another era of mega-corp hard wiring browsers into their OSes any more. Oh wait.

We have OS hardwired into browser now.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by throwaway71271 »

hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #32
throwaway71271 wrote: post #22

sad day, the day that we have one less web browser only webkit is left the king is dead, long live the king.

what about Gecko?

I think that Gecko is more dead than IE 11, 3% of people use it, versus 0.3% using IE11, but those Gecko people will move to chrome, while the 0.3% people using IE11 will never move due to enterprise reasons.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by microSnowball »

space_ghost wrote: post #29
wolframhempel wrote: post #10

I started my career 2008 building real estate and stock news websites. Back then, sooooo much of my days were spent making things "IE compatible" using techniques like: - creating sprite sheets of transparent png corners and sides that one could arrange in a table around an element to create drop-shadows and rounded corners - putting single pixel, transparent gifs at the end of floated containers because clearfix use…

I strongly remember using Firebug in Firefox (mind-blowing tools, for the time) in ~2008 and having to debug issues in IE, which had the equivalent of a Check Engine Light for debugging.

Lol I remember that little yellow triangle. The source of so much pain.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by mwcampbell »

Does anyone know when the forced redirect from IE to Edge actually lands, particularly in Windows 10? In particular, does anyone know when it will affect users that open IE by entering "iexplore URL" in the Run dialog? Is anyone seeing this behavior yet? I'm not.
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