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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon jeffreytse

fix: remove outdated meta element for EOL IE

Open Rotzbua opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

The meta tag is used for IE lower than 11. But all IE versions are EOL: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2022/06/15/internet-explorer-11-has-retired-and-is-officially-out-of-support-what-you-need-to-know/

Old text: https://webhint.io/docs/user-guide/hints/hint-highest-available-document-mode/

Rotzbua avatar Jan 14 '22 01:01 Rotzbua

As mentioned in the linked source the meta is only used by ancient IE versions (6 years EOL!). On the "current" IE11 the meta has no effect, so it is not useful.

Rotzbua avatar Jan 22 '22 11:01 Rotzbua

@Rotzbua But there are still some people are using IE8 or IE9, right? Should we ignore them nowadays? Thanks and Regards

jeffreytse avatar Feb 02 '22 03:02 jeffreytse

@Rotzbua But there are still some people are using IE8 or IE9, right? Should we ignore them nowadays? Thanks and Regards

There are always "some" people using ancient software. The current statistics from browserslist claims for IE 5.5-9 about 0.14% globally. Most modern web frameworks kicked the support for lower than IE 11.

From a dev perspective I think it is hard to keep IE 8/9 support because you need a test setup 😄

Rotzbua avatar Feb 02 '22 14:02 Rotzbua