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Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com
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Using `Internet Explorer` support info from `browser-compat-data` #6590

Open Semigradsky opened 1 year ago

Semigradsky commented 1 year ago

browser-compat-data from v5.2.0 no more adding new data about IE/Edge legacy support info - https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/main/RELEASE_NOTES.md#v520 And in the future existing data will be removed.

caniuse.com currently is showing data from browser-compat-data. And for some new properties it can show incorrect data

For example - https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_hyphenate-limit-chars IE 10+ has support via prefix but this info wasn't added to browser-compat-data - https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/pull/18369

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Sora2455 commented 1 year ago

In a week, Internet Explorer is going to be permanently disabled by an Edge Update on Windows 10 (it was never present on Windows 11).

Globally, IE use is about 0.57% for 11 and 0.16% for 6-10 (source: CanIUse). Legacy Edge has it even worse, at 0.02%. Realistically, these numbers will only ever go down.

Opera Mini has 0.97% global use at time of writing - how many people do you see testing their sites in Opera Mini?

Fyrd commented 1 year ago

Thanks @Semigradsky for sharing this. For now I've added a warning icon with tooltip informing users of the state of IE support from MDN BCD (will only appear on the MDN BCD tables). Once it is completely removed it will appear as "unknown". Will probably remove the browser from caniuse soon after that too.

Schweinepriester commented 1 year ago

Will probably remove the browser from caniuse soon after that too.

While I hate IE from the bottom of my heart, I'd like to mention that for sure some poor souls out there will have to support it till the end of time in web terms, i.e. via

Microsoft has announced support for IE Mode through at least 2029, with a one year advance notice prior to retiring this variant of IE11.[6]

To make it less bad for those souls, I'd ask for a good reason to remove the support data, i.e. perf for all others or something, and not remove it just because.

bkil commented 1 year ago

@Sora2455 UC & Opera Mini are your only way to go if all you have is a dumb feature phone, if you only have usable 2G GPRS/EDGE coverage throughout the day or you monthly data usage quota is too expensive.

Not sure how much of that is Mini & extreme, though, and the proxy may also fake the User-Agent at times

Mobile Browser Market Share Africa Apr 2022 - Apr 2023 Chrome 67.28%, Safari 13.46%, Opera 11.77%, Samsung Internet 5.64%, UC Browser 0.83%, Firefox 0.39%

See also #6267