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Unbelievably, still supports IE 11 which is scheduled to be deprecated in jQuery 5.0
by rationably 8mo ago
Unbelievably, still supports IE 11 which is scheduled to be deprecated in jQuery 5.0
- tartoran 8mo agoBackwards compatibility. Apparently there are still some people stuck on IE11. It's nice that jQuery still supports those users and the products that they are still running.
- phinnaeus 8mo agoAre those people/products upgrading jQuery though?
- jbullock35 8mo agoWho is still stuck on IE 11---and why?
- ejmatta 8mo agoSome corporate machines still run XP. Why upgrade what works?
- ExpertAdvisor01 8mo agoSECURITY
- Joel_Mckay 8mo agoYet it would still run Windows Adware edition. =3
- LtdJorge 8mo agoUse Enterprise
- Joel_Mckay 8mo agoEnterprise Adware? Sounds hilarious to people that already paid $190 USD/seat to get spammed. In general, Windows has always belonged on a VM snapshot backing image. =3
- ddtaylor 8mo agoI think anything still using ActiveX like stuff or "native" things. Sure, it should all be dead and gone, but some might not be and there is no path forward with any of that AFAIK.
- flomo 8mo agoThere are some really retrograde government and bigcorps, running ten year old infrastructure. And if that is your customer-base? You do it. Plus I worked on a consumer launch site for something you might remember, and we got the late requirement for IE7 support, because that's what the executives in Japan had. No customers cared, but yeah it worked in IE7.
- jbullock35 8mo agoOh, certainly, corporations run ten-year-old software. But for the record, IE 11 turns 13 this year [1]. Which makes it somewhat more surprising to me. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_11
- layer8 8mo agoMicrosoft will support IE 11 until 2032.
- kstrauser 8mo agoMy reading is that they’ll support Edge’s IE 11 compatibility mode until then, but that IE 11 is already EOLed except for a couple of extremely niche enterprise versions.
- layer8 8mo agoThe IE 11 desktop application remains supported on a number of Windows LTSC versions: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/internet-explorer-11-desktop-app-retirement-faq/2366549 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/... At least one of them, Windows 10 IoT LTSC, will receive support until 2032.
- simondotau 8mo agoSurely by this point someone has written a 0-day for MSIE 11 which gets root and silently installs an Internet Explorer skinned Chromium. If not, someone should get onto that. —Signed, everyone
- wqweto 8mo agoLast available Chromium on XP has 0-days too, so not a big win.
- simondotau 8mo agoThe goal isn’t to make XP machines more secure, so that’s not a problem.
- epolanski 8mo agoOne of my clients in the past had, as of 2020, noticeable traffic from IE8, 9 and IE11. When I say noticeable I mean 10%+ out of million users. It followed the 8-17 monday-friday pattern. Essentially it was people at their work machines (posts, banks, etc) running corporate computers where modern browsers were not installed. We had a computer for manually testing every release on IE8 and 9. If somebody is looking for our products from those computers, we aren't gonna lose them. But as far as I know, that client dropped support for IE8 and IE9 in 2024 with IE11 planned to be dropped this year.
- kstrauser 8mo agoThis is the part that I find the strangest: > We also dropped support for other very old browsers, including Edge Legacy, iOS versions earlier than the last 3, Firefox versions earlier than the last 2 (aside from Firefox ESR), and Android Browser. Safari from iOS 16, released in 2022, is more modern in every conceivable way than MSIE 11. I'd also bet there are more people stuck with iOS 16- than those who can only use IE 11, except maybe at companies with horrid IT departments, in which case I kind of see this as enabling them to continue to suck. I'd vote to rip the bandaid off. MSIE is dead tech, deader than some of the other browsers they're deprecating. Let it fade into ignomony as soon as possible.
- sebazzz 8mo ago“Support” here probably means “we’re testing jQuery for compatibility on those web browsers” - likely Safari from iOS 16 still runs this version of jQuery just fine. However, running automated test suites or support bugfixing for those clients is a lot harder than spinning up some Microsoft-provided VM with IE11 on it.
- troupo 8mo ago> Safari from iOS 16, released in 2022, is more modern in every conceivable way than MSIE 11. There are likely millions if not tens of millions of computers still running MSIE11. There are likely to be no devices running iOS 16
- kstrauser 8mo agoAccording to Cloudflare, there are almost no users still on MSIE of any version.[0] Statcounter says there are about 4.6% of iOS users still on iOS 16.[1] My gut instinct is that there are multiple times more people using iOS 16 today than MSIE of any version. [0] https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2025-q3 https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-20... [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/ios/mobile-tablet/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/ios/mobil...
- ulrischa 8mo agoNot everybody in the world can use modern hard- and software. There are tons of school computer labs running old software
- indolering 8mo agoIt looks like it was done to not delay the 4.0 release. Since they follow semvar, that means it won't get the axe until 5.0 [1]. Pretty wild considering that 3.0 was released 10 years ago. But maybe they will scope this one better: they were talking about getting 4.0 released in 2020 back in 2019! [1]: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/5077 https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/5077 [2]: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/4299 https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/4299
- layer8 8mo agoMicrosoft will support IE 11 until 2032 in Windows 10 LTSC and IE Mode in Edge on Windows 11.