My preference would still be to keep IE11, for one more year, if possible. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/05/19/the-future-of-internet-explorer-on-windows-10-is-in-microsoft-edge/ MS official suport ends on June 15, 2022.
Is there some new feature to be added, into GWT core that require removal of IE11? +1 removal of ie8-10. +1 deprecate ie11 for gwt 2.10 On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 7:49:56 PM UTC+3 [email protected] wrote: > I've just filed https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9739, where a > workaround exists in java.util.Date that nearly doubles the time it takes > to parse date strings and build date objects. This workaround exists for > IE8 and IE9, as all more recent browsers implement the same behavior as we > already would expect. Dropping support for those two browsers would > simplify the code required here > > From the age of this thread and the discussion so far, it sounds like > there is interest in keeping IE11 still, but no one has spoke up about IE10 > or below. > > Additionally, java.util.Random emulation was changed to require > Date.now(), which isn't available in IE8, so neither GWT 2.8.2 nor GWT > 2.9.0 are apparently compatible with IE8 anyway, at least in this small > way. This should give us some confidence (along with the lack of opposition > in this thread) that at least IE8 is definitely safe to drop. > > So, is there any objection at this time to dropping what remains of IE8, > IE9, and IE10 support from GWT? Then, we can reevaluate IE11 at some later > date, for GWT itself? Various migrated GWT modules have focused their > efforts on well-supported browsers, and are likely to only support IE11 by > accident anyway. > > On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1:20:02 AM UTC-6 stuckagain wrote: > >> We still need IE11 support in the banking sector. We still have a >> majority of customers that use IE11 due to technical reasons (plugins >> needed for accessing secure token donβt install properly in Chrome without >> internet access amongst others). >> >> What do you mean with βnext version of GWTβ if that is 3.x then I donβt >> care at this point. We have been waiting for that release for a few years >> now. But 2.x releases should not drop IE11 support it is supposed to be a >> long-term supported version. >> On 12 Mar 2021, 07:54 +0100, [email protected] < >> [email protected]>, wrote: >> >> Hi all! >> >> I think IE11 support should be dropped soon if it blocks (or makes it >> difficult) to implement new features in the next version of GWT. >> I understand, that there are enterprises who still use IE11 internally, >> but developers who service such enterprises should use the current version >> of GWT, which is not going away. Nobody is forced to upgrade to the next >> version of GWT. >> >> Thanks, >> Berni >> >> [email protected] schrieb am Donnerstag, 11. MΓ€rz 2021 um 22:26:21 >> UTC+1: >> >>> IE 11 is still widely used inside corporations, because it is the only >>> browser that supports Java applets, and applications such as Oracle >>> e-Business Suite still use applets extensively (for Oracle forms). While >>> that segment does not move very fast, it does not mean other unrelated >>> groups within the same corporation are not updating GWT regularly. It is >>> hard to generalize In a multinational company with tens of thousands of >>> employees. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Tony >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 9:49 AM Jens <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dropping IE 8-10 shouldn't really hurt. Companies that require it are >>>> probably not upgrading GWT in a fast pace anyways. >>>> >>>> However I wouldn't drop IE 11 anytime soon. IE 11 itself is tied to the >>>> lifecycle of Microsoft's operating systems, which means for Windows 10 it >>>> is supported until 2025 (for now). So just because MS and Google drop >>>> support for IE 11 in some/all of their products, the browser itself is >>>> still generally supported by MS. So we should think twice before removing >>>> IE 11 from a library such as GWT, even if it means to decline/revert >>>> certain commits if they break IE 11. From own experience I have usually >>>> seen something around 8% of IE 11 usage in GWT based apps. >>>> >>>> However I am pretty sure more and more companies will announce dropping >>>> IE 11 this year or next year. With MS and Google starting, this could >>>> easily have a domino effect. However GWT also also strongly used >>>> internally >>>> inside companies so it might not have that much of an effect in that area. >>>> >>>> If we ditch IE 8-10 and only leaving gecko1_8 and safari, can't we kill >>>> them both as well and put them together? Are there so many differences in >>>> code between both? From my work migrating GWT code to elemental2/JsInterop >>>> I had the feeling that only some minor stuff is different between both. 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