Hasty Treat - Should You Support IE11?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about IE11 — should you support it, what to be aware of if you do, and what data is important in making that decision. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 03:21 - When was IE11 made? 03:48 - When is it deprecated? 04:44 - How to make the decision? Look at your analytics Look at your users Is a 2% drop in sales worth it? 09:00 - What doesn’t IE11 have? What can you start using now that IE11 is gone? Modern Flexbox CSS Grid CSS Variables 10:26 - Can you partially support it? Major features Progressive enhancement Gracefully degrade Polyfill 11:16 - What about testing? Links wesbos.com VirtualBox modern.ie IE11 Surface Book Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday, Monday, Monday,
0:02.0	Open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face
0:06.0	with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,
0:09.0	get workflows,
0:10.0	break dancing, soft skills, web development,
0:12.0	the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is
0:18.1	Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloko Tolinsky.
0:25.0	Oh, welcome to Syntax in this Monday hasty treat we're going gonna be talking about everybody's favorite subject in the entire world which is internet
0:37.3	Explorer 11. Oh yeah love me some Internet Explorer 11 is something you will never hear anybody say ever.
0:45.8	My name is Scott Tolinsky, I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado, and with me as always is
0:50.4	the West Bals.
0:52.0	Hey everybody. Hey everybody. Hey everybody. So how's it going in that
0:56.6	full stack shack over there, Wes? Going good. I talked about last episode. My
1:01.5	internet is not great right now,
1:03.8	but it was hopefully we'll get better.
1:06.3	I'm holding out for it.
1:08.0	Yeah, I'm hopeful too.
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