Vanita Barrett-Smith
Vanita Barrett-Smith
## What We have decided to reduce support for IE11 in GOV.UK Frontend and drop support completely for IE8-10. We [shared these proposed changes](https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/discussions/2607) with the frontend community in GDS...
## What Allow components to take a config object through their constructor, before being initialised. The config object should default to an empty object, and therefore a component must be...
## What Add a new [full page example](http://govuk-frontend-review.herokuapp.com/full-page-examples) in the review app, which shows components which have been passed translated content via their macro options. This card does not cover...
## What Figure out how we stop serving JavaScript to Internet Explorer browsers. ## Why We have decided to reduce support for IE11 in GOV.UK Frontend and drop support completely...
Original issue submitted by Chris Moore via Zendesk: https://govuk.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/4315309 ## Description of the issue List of error messages within the error summary is not announced when using Voiceover and Safari...
## What At the moment, we ship polyfills to all browsers even when they're not needed. We think around 50% of the JavaScript we ship is polyfills (this might say...
## What Update any documentation in the GOV.UK Frontend repo that references our browser support, e.g: the README. We should include: - what our new level of support is -...
## What Remove any IE8 specific styles, as we're dropping support for IE in a future breaking release. ## Why We have decided to reduce support for IE11 in GOV.UK...
### Cause Some of our component JavaScript is quite complex, for example: there's a lot of DOM manipulation and managing state. We've also iterated component JavaScript over time and in...
## What Revisit our support levels for v4 and decide if we want to continue or reduce the level of support. We said we would revisit this 1 year after...