Elevate a glass, kiss your spouse, hug your youngsters. It’s lastly gone.
It’s lifeless.
Web Explorer has been dying for an age. 15 years in the past IE6 lastly bit it, 8 years in the past I used to be calling for webdevs to hasten the dying of IE8 and at the moment is the day that Microsoft has lastly pulled common assist for “retired” Web Explorer 11, the final of its identify.
Its successor, Edge, makes use of the identical rendering engine as Chrome. Whereas I’m certain we’ll have a protracted chat concerning the issues of monocultures someday, this implies —for now— that fashionable requirements are one thing we will actually give attention to with out having to fret about what the 9 yr previous render engine thinks. And I imply that at a industrial degree. Use show: grid with out fallback code. Use ES6 options with out Babel transpiling all the things. Go, create one thing and anticipate it to only work.
Right here’s to by no means having to obtain the multi-gigabyte, 90 day Web Explorer take a look at machine pictures. Right here’s to kicking out swathes of compat code. Right here’s to with the ability to [fairly] rigourously take a look at an internet site domestically and not using a third social gathering working a dozen variations of Home windows.
The net is extra free for this. Rejoice! whereas it lasts.
