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> we’ve dropped support for Internet Explorer.

This is probably more of a mental thing for me than anything, but it's hard to separate myself as an old-school developer from the idea of supporting IE because of it's historical market share. As much of a PITA it was for so long. I suppose, though, I'm happy to see it go.

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A huge part of the knowledge I had to acquire in the early years of my development career is now useless or even harmful... Anyone remember clear: left; ? :D

Haha. Nothing like `zoom:1`.

What about fixed size white gifs in the tabel cells??? :)))

On the other hand, something like Bootstrap is pretty awesome if you want to create a slightly better, standardized look for your corporate intranet web app or site. Environments where IE11 is still somewhat common and where the relatively large share of Mobile Safari hardly matters.

Just recently someone mentioned to me that some SAP stuff can't be used without IE11. And as long as you get these hold-outs and enterprise IT guys avoid auditing multiple browsers, you'll get IE11 as the sole available browser in cubicles.

Bootstrap 4 is not going to be EOL anytime soon according to mdo, so you are good for a few more years.

Been there too, remembering the nights dealing with IE... How to forget that dramatic years with the IE 5 debugger. We were just other victims of the M$ monopoly.

I feel you! Good news is IE11 is going end of life soon and it's increasing less of a concern. Legacy Edge is still there to fill the void though :D.

Shouldn't Windows 10's updates should kill off most of the Legacy Edge within the year?

Yup, and we're looking at dropping Legacy Edge from our supported browsers for this reason as well. As of right now, we still have v17 and v18 in there, but there's a PR open to remove.

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