[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 slkfsdf8y34ljhsfsdfkuhfkl84hj):

 I agree that things should be compatible, but they also needs to move
 forward.

 In the EU, countries are forced by law to renew licenses for softwares
 that are no longer supported.

 Yet keep in mind that in the US lives just 4.25% of the world population.
 While in EU it's 9.8%.

 What I am worried is that a lot of these IE11 users are actually Edge
 users under "IE mode" that is now used for such institutions.

 The Facebook example was in order to show that even a company, which has a
 large portion of users with outdated machines is pushing things forward
 and I think that is from a long time ago.

 In every move there are pros and cons, the reasoning here is to weight
 each of these and compare them.

 In India for example there are 1.34B people which counts for 17.7% of the
 world population, far greater than the US or EU and greater even if you
 combine the last two.

 These people there, have their first internet connected device to be
 primarily low and even budget mobile devices, most likely a smartphone
 that runs a Chromium based browser or Firefox.

 On the other hand they have significantly slower internet connection that
 comes throw the telecoms as mobile data.

 For these people 2G and low speed 3G are something regular, not to count
 the latency and slowness due to the increased usage from so many people.

 For these people a faster loading page that uses passive listeners for
 comments would be far better than the IE11 support.

 It's a numbers game, I wish you just open a bit and compare what I am
 trying to say with an open mind as sometimes pushing things forward will
 make things better for the majority of people around the world.

 Kind Regards

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