But what will people download Chrome with now?
Raise a glass, kiss your wife, hug your children. It’s finally gone.
It’s dead.
Internet Explorer has been dying for an age. 15 years ago IE6 finally bit it, 8 years ago I was calling for webdevs to hasten the death of IE8 and today is the day that Microsoft has finally pulled regular support for “retired” Internet Explorer 11, the last of its name.
Its successor, Edge, uses the same rendering engine as Chrome. While I’m sure we’ll have a long chat about the problems of monocultures one day, this means —for now— that modern standards are something we can really focus on without having to worry about what the 9 year old render engine thinks. And I mean that at a commercial level. Use display: grid without fallback code. Use ES6 features without Babel transpiling everything. Go, create something and expect it to just work.
Here’s to never having to download the multi-gigabyte, 90 day Internet Explorer test machine images. Here’s to kicking out swathes of compat code. Here’s to being able to [fairly] rigourously test a website locally without a third party running a dozen versions of Windows.
The web is more free for this.
This battle is won, but the war never ends.
Any webdevs know it’s not that simple. I have clients who will pay MS for extended support. Some users will just not know any better, like IE8 on Vista, like IE6 on XP. We’re years away, but it’s a real glimmer of hope.
Until next time.
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