I’ve had a similar response from not supporting IE since about 2016. A couple users asked about it and had no problem when I told them we didn’t support it. Mostly, they switched to Chrome.
👍👍 > On Apr 7, 2020, at 4:41 AM, Dave Caughey <caugh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Check the analytics... I think you'll find dropping it is a non-issue. In my > own web service, I found that IE (all versions) constituted only about 1% of > my users. > > So I dropped support for IE (since it was preventing me from fully adopting > ES6), and there was not a single complaint from my users. > > Cheers, > Dave > > On Tue., Apr. 7, 2020, 3:36 a.m. Dave Page, <dp...@pgadmin.org > <mailto:dp...@pgadmin.org>> wrote: > All, > > Internet Explorer has long been superseded by Microsoft Edge, and even that > has recently moved to using Chromium as it's core engine. Version 11 was > originally released in 2013, and though Microsoft have committed to > supporting it until 2025, as far as I can tell there have been no notable new > features in almost it's entire lifetime, and certainly in recent years > Microsoft have only been releasing security fixes. > > As you can imagine, supporting Internet Explorer has a non-trivial cost to it > for the pgAdmin project. Not only do we need to test with it as well as Edge, > but we also need to write code, CSS and HTML that is fully compatible with > what essentially is a 7 year old browser. By comparison, for all other > browsers we typically aim to support releases no more than 2 years old. > > I therefore propose that we officially drop support for Internet Explorer. > Practically this means that we would not test with it, and anyone reporting a > bug with it would be told to use an alternate browser. > > Objections/comments please? > > Thanks! > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com <http://pgsnake.blogspot.com/> > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com/> > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
