Internet Explorer finally dies

Ive written about the death of Internet Explorer before over on CSS Tricks and A List Apart, perhaps prematurely, but weve finally reached a tipping point.

Popular JavaScript frameworks have dropped support, including Vue 3 and Preact 11. Angular has deprecated support for IE and will fully remove support in version 13. Ember is removing support in version 4, to be released in September. Ionic, a library of UI components, also ditched IE.

Bootstrap, still the most popular CSS framework, officially dropped support for IE with the release of Bootstrap 5. Tailwind, another popular CSS library, also dropped support for IE11 with the release of version 2.

WordPress dropped support with the release of version 5.8. Drupal will drop support with the forthcoming release of Drupal 10.

The list of companies that have dropped support is growing by the day, and includes: Adobe, Dailymotion, Skillshare, LinkedIn, Twitter, SAP, among many others.

Many of Microsoft's own products have already dropped support: Microsoft Teams web app ended support in November 2020. From August 17th, 2021, Microsoft 365 apps and services will also drop support.

Senior Director of Engineering at GoDaddy tweeted back in 2020: We dropped support @GoDaddy for IE11 in April. We've seen 25% bundle size reductions since targeting modern JavaScript for transpilation

It is now Safari that is the major outlier. Few users are stuck on old versions of Chrome or Firefox, but plenty of users get stuck on old versions of iOS.