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Remove Internet Explorer by default #699
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Agree. Let's wait a week-two for everyone to update and then will add it to |
Hey, Thinking of the corporate and enterprise markets, does anyone know more details on this auto-redirection policy, I’m wondering if this market might be using MSFT Group Policy to prevent those redirects. I’ve got clients in Asia & Africa that still have IE requirements unfortunately and am thinking about how to continue supporting this in some way until they are in a position to remove that IE support |
@ntwb why custom Browserslist is not a solution for these clients? You can add Browserslist config without |
Thanks @ai, yes, this should work, I will test it now |
I hope that it will be a major bump of |
@zloirock why it should be major bump? Major bump is public API changes. Our “public API” is the meaning of queries, not the browsers inside queries (up to date quires updates it is core selling point of Browserslist). We didn’t change the meaning of |
Removing IE from defaults will be unexpected for many users. Even if it's no longer maintained by MS, too many companies are forced to maintain it for many different reasons, the most of them do not specify IE directly and use |
If they need to support IE 11, they should explicitly explain it in Browserslist config by adding If we do not add IE 11 to (Also if we will add IE 11 to |
It's your choice. I just said that without it you will break too many products. And this breakage can be a more significant problem than updating the ecosystem. |
Alright, now I know why our transpilation did not worked anymore as expected, we had "> 0.5%, ie 11, not dead", which worked before, instead of "> 0.5%, not dead, ie 11" which works now. 🙄 This was unexpected and "nicely" hidden, because browserslist is just a transitive dependency in our project. |
Now that Microsoft is already redirecting Internet Explorer to Edge automatically, I'd argue it's already dying, and will be dead once support ends on June 15th.
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