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Drop support for IE 10 #13613

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Findus23 opened this issue Oct 15, 2018 · 7 comments
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Drop support for IE 10 #13613

Findus23 opened this issue Oct 15, 2018 · 7 comments
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c: Platform For Matomo platform changes that aren't impacting any of our APIs but improve the core itself. Major Indicates the severity or impact or benefit of an issue is much higher than normal but not critical.
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Findus23 commented Oct 15, 2018

While we are on the topic of unpopular support changes, let's continue with Internet Explorer. 馃檪

Internet Explorer 10 hasn't been receiving security updates since January 12, 2016 (source) and using it to access the internet is highly dangerous. In addition IE 10 never was really popular and seems to be only be used by 0.07%.
Therefore I think it is really easy to completely drop support for IE 10 in Matomo 4.

Personally I would like to also drop IE 11 and only support Edge, but I guess this won't be feasible as far to many companies are using it and don't have another way to access Matomo.
In addition IE 11 still receives security updates (but unfortunately no bug fixes anymore).
Funfact:

Internet Explorer 11 will be supported for the life of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/end-of-ie-support

As Microsoft doesn't seem to be planning to release an update that isn't called Windows 10, IE 11 will probably be supported for eternity 馃檪 .

Note: This does not mean IE 10 users won't be tracked anymore. The tracking script will continue to support ancient browsers. (Although it might be worth it to move the definition of "ancient" to IE7+ #6093 (comment))

@Findus23 Findus23 added the c: Platform For Matomo platform changes that aren't impacting any of our APIs but improve the core itself. label Oct 15, 2018
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tsteur commented Oct 15, 2018

Dropping support for IE10 in Matomo 4 should be fine I reckon.

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tsteur commented Jan 16, 2020

I think it's quite clear we will drop support for IE 10. The only question is are there also other browser we should consider dropping support for? I would say for now we only drop IE 10. If we run into any issues during development re any browser then we consider dropping it as well depending on the problem etc.

This applies of course only to the tracking part.

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tsteur commented Jan 16, 2020

I suppose we could close this issue @Findus23 ?

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If we run into any issues during development re any browser then we consider dropping it as well depending on the problem etc.

As great as it would be, dropping support for IE11 will be quite hard as it is still "supported" by Microsoft.

This applies of course only to the tracking part.

You mean this (dropping IE10 support) applies to everything apart from tracking?

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tsteur commented Jan 20, 2020

You mean this (dropping IE10 support) applies to everything apart from tracking?

Yes.

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tsteur commented Jan 20, 2020

Actually I reopen so it won't be forgotten to put this into the release notes.
Might be good to start writing the release notes already and enrich over the next 3-5 months... @mattab maybe we start a doc?

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mattab commented Jan 23, 2020

@tsteur in general whenever there is an issue, and it has been closed, then it will appear in the changelog. To highlight the issue to the top of the changelog, we can add Major label to the issue.

still sounds good to keep track of release notes, created https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/wiki/Matomo-4.0.0-release-notes

@tsteur tsteur closed this as completed Jan 23, 2020
@mattab mattab added the Major Indicates the severity or impact or benefit of an issue is much higher than normal but not critical. label Sep 28, 2020
@mattab mattab changed the title Drop support for (at least) IE 10 Drop support for IE 10 Sep 28, 2020
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