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by AltruisticGap 2817 days ago
Sounds great, but why bother with the added work supporting IE11 if Vue 2.x can be used with IE11? Especially that time continues to fly until 3.x is released, and IE11 is replaced with EDGE already.

edit: I am guessing this has to do with having one codebase for projects that move to vue 3 and still need support for IE1.. makes sense. Hmm.
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Roritharr 2817 days ago
IE11 is still supported by Microsoft atleast up until 2021, possibly further. We bet on Vue and 5% of our enterprisey customers rely solely on IE11 for some reason or another and our competition supports it unflinchingly.

So, atleast we're very glad for this decision.

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reaperducer 2817 days ago
I’ve got almost 25% IE11 and XP to support. I feel your pain.
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EB66 2817 days ago
Unfortunately, IE11 is still quite prevalent in large enterprise organization with IT departments that control which browsers are installed on desktops across the org. There's a lot of bureaucracy and legacy apps to contend with before making a change to swap out a browser. For example, IT might first have to certify that a browser change would not break usability with any number of old internal company web apps.

There are also quite a number of Win32 apps with embedded browsers that are essentially running IE11. Depending on what Win32 control/plug-in was used to embed a web browser, those embedded web browsers might be stuck on IE11 indefinitely (until the authors of the Win32 app re-compile with an embedded web browser that uses Edge).

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rk06 2816 days ago
Because IE 11 is currently being used in a lot of places.

In my company, majority of desktops are on Win 7, hence edge is not an option.

the same must be the case in a lot of companies as well.

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