Internet Explorer 11 support

[howtimeflies0]

*** ISSUES ***

• Sliders in interactive layer explorer doesn't work

Various data worker in our gallery examples do not work

• IE doesn't support template literals
• IE doesn't support shorthand property names

Things we need to do:

• Add docs in getting-started that explains that polyfills are needed when building for IE11. Docs: Add polyfill instructions for IE11 #845

[ibgreen]

IE doesn't support template literals
IE doesn't support shorthand property names

Sounds like these haven't been transpiled? Maybe an easy fix?

[ehallq]

Hi
I am currently developing a application with deck.gl and it works really good! But I really need IE11 support. What is the status of this issue? I can see that this is a milestone set for v4.1, and v4.1 was released 15 days ago. Should I be prepered to wait 1 week, 1 month or a year for IE11 to get support? I just want to be able to get some kind of estimate :)

[ibgreen]

@ehallq There are no specific plans. But if the issues are small, we might be able to address them in a patch release to deck.gl 4.1 (best case within a couple of days).

A great way to help us would be to let us know what problems you are seeing. Are they the same as listed in this issue? Did fix #702 not address them?

IE11 is not one of our primary environments. We mainly want to support IE11 (as the one exception to our focus on "evergreen" browsers) for the benefit external users such as yourself - to ensure we have a reasonable coverage of browsers for people building web apps on deck.gl. So any help will be appreciated!

[jkchen777atgmail]

IE 11 has been used and supported on Windows only in Corp space for a while. These are the basics for use of IE v11 as reference. 1. Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/ie11-deploy-guide/enterprise-mode-overview-for-ie11 2. Baseline https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/ie11-deploy-guide/system-requirements-and-language-support-for-ie11

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[kktam]

There seemed to be some problem with trans-piled output.

for example in the Arc Example, the error is located at bundle.js

line 74974
var pageLoadPromise = isBrowser ? new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
  window.onload = function () {
    isPageLoaded = true;
    resolve(document);
  };
}) : Promise.resolve({});

SCRIPT5009: 'Promise' is undefined
File: bundle.js, Line: 74974, Column: 1

This error is captured in IE 11 Version 11.0.9600.18617

[1chandu]

Verify on IE-11 to get feel of all issues.

[athomann]

I'd be happy to work on this issue. Anyone be able to point me in the right direction. Also looks like https://deck.gl doesn't load on IE 11.

[tsherif]

Thanks for offering to help @athomann! This was an issue in luma.gl and has already been resolved in visgl/luma.gl#1238. The fix will be released in deck.gl v7.3 later this week.