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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: pgAdmin Support <[email protected]>
To: pgadmin-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:36:24 +0100
Message-ID: <CA+OCxowooZqhT3BBLo5KshKjWJZNN7ERQydBmUrRLz=n+1LQKA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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
Twitter: @pgsnake

EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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