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leob

20% even ! That's probably more than the general market share but anyways completely dropping IE seems really a risky move (imagine how many years we've been fretting about IE 8 compatibility, haha).

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Mike Talbot ⭐

Wikipedia has 10% of users on IE11 and I think that's probably the most accurate real-world share. In my case, it's mostly older corporates and they are in no hurry to leave. A lot of people look at caniuse.com stats and think IE is down in the lower % points - but that site measure visitors to itself - not many developers use IE11 in 2020 - but we still have users out there.

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leob

Right! I've seen another "stats" site where IE wasn't even mentioned anymore but I also think they've got it wrong, and generalized statistics don't mean much when you're operating in specific markets (corporate, specific geographies).

So I think we can agree that completely dropping IE is a questionable move, especially for what's simply a rather minor upgrade of a CSS framework which doesn't bring jaw dropping advances over the previous version.

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Mike Talbot ⭐

Underlining my point above - when I mentioned this before Ben H pointed out that 0% of visitors to DEV are on IE11 (40 in a day/week or something). So it does depend on the audience, DEV could go to Bootstrap 5 and wouldn't hurt. LinkedIn would have a real issue.

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leob

Exactly, it's all about the target audience ...