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Discussion on: IE 11, the Modern Web, and You (Featuring StencilJS)

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Alexey Kallaur

Have you eventually solved those issues and made stencils app working in ie11? Seems like I encountered the same problems

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Scott Yeatts • Edited

EDIT: 18 Feb 2016
Something changed between writing this and getting started on the frontend of our app, in the best possible way. I don't know what, but I have not seen a polyfill breakage since my POC. I've got our app up and running on Stencil and have seen very few of these issues. So I guess the ultimate answer is yes!-

I have actually been side-tracked into working on the Java backend since I built the POC, so I have not been able to work on this at all.

I WAS successful in making the argument that full support for IE11 was a very bad idea, and we are going with an alternate, extremely minimal UI specifically for IE (we're talking no-frills bare-bones UI), but the longer we put it off, the closer we get to January 2020, when extended support for Windows 7 ends and I will argue that IE support should go with it.

I actually argued that we shouldn't be supporting it now, either, but you know businesses... There's always one person on the chain that's worried the old guy above him is going to still be using IE, and sees that as a technological issue, not a training one haha!

One suggestion would be to write each component individually and not use their app starter environment, but honestly IE11 is going to give you headaches if you use any browser/tech developed before 2015 and isn't being consistently updated. The browser engine just doesn't have any of the things that have been added to the spec since then...