The decision was made to implement a nag screen to warn users that they were using an insecure browser and to update it. This discussion to consider dropping Internet Explorer 11 is part of an ongoing discussion that began 16 months ago when a developer ticket was opened where it was thoroughly discussed and it was decided to implement a nag screen to encourage publishers to upgrade their browser. This further underscores the need to determine a policy that takes into consideration both a data-informed approach and the impacted user bases while weighing the potential benefits for the wider web. “There are major institutions like banking, government, and education that are unable to control when they can upgrade sometimes due to legal requirements, depending on the country. There may be folks in countries around the world who are constrained to using IE 11 for legal and other reasons. We expect a result of dropping IE11 support to improve performance for the vast majority of users.” Downsides of Dropping Supportĭropping support for IE 11 is not all sunshine and good news. The smaller downloads would positively impact all users, especially those on slower networks, or computing devices. Moreover, dropping support would ultimately make WordPress’ currently included polyfill script obsolete, decreasing the enqueued scripts size 102kB more. This is a result of heavily relying on transpilers, further explained by Jason Miller, Web DevRel at Google. “Dropping support would result in smaller scripts, lower maintenance burden, and decrease build times.įor instance, a recent exploration… demonstrated that not transpiling the scripts to IE11 immediately resulted in a net reduction of nearly 84kB in the Gutenberg JavaScript built files, representing a 7,78% total decrease in size these scripts have seen a size contraction up to 60%, with an average reduction of 24%. The WordPress announcement listed the benefits: There would also be benefits for users of WordPress and those who visit WordPress websites. Rather than waste resources supporting a small amount of users, WordPress is going to relieve developers from the burden of having to support IE 11. Keeping the WordPress code usable for Internet Explorer 11 makes extra work for developers in order to support a rapidly dwindling user base. Dropping support means improvement in WordPress performance, a better user experience for users and an easier load for developers. WordPress announced that it is opening discussions about dropping support for Internet Explorer 11.
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