[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49696: Define guidelines for minimum IE support

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#49696: Define guidelines for minimum IE support
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 Reporter:  isabel_brison   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  General         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  accessibility, javascript, css
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Comment (by burtrw):

 To help maybe quantify the number of people that may be using IE11 beyond
 the general stats mentioned above, here are the percentages of browsers
 used by visitors to edublogs.org in the month of February 2020. Edublogs
 gets global traffic, with a large percentage of those in schools around
 the world (which are notorious for having outdated hardware and require
 the use of IE).

 Top 10 Browsers
 [[Image(https://ronnieburt.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/browsers.png)]]

 IE Versions
 [[Image(https://ronnieburt.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IEVersion.png)]]

 I also note that IE use is only slightly down from 2.13% of all visitors
 to Edublogs in February 2019 to 2.01% of visitors in February 2020. Before
 digging into this, I expected the drop in usage to be greater than it
 actually was.

 It might be useful to see similar browser usage from other larger
 WordPress sites? To me, 2% is not really that insignificant,
 unfortunately. That being said, the idea of being able to safely make use
 of newer technologies while still not breaking or making sites on IE
 usable seems reasonable, if it is technically possible.

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