A Support Group for the Trauma of Supporting IE11
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This image is a screenshot of a tweet from user Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly). The tweet reads, 'I'm going to start a support group for people who still need their code to support IE11. You're not alone.' The profile picture shows a woman with blonde, curly hair. Below the text, the tweet shows engagement metrics: 117 comments, 155 retweets, and 1,793 likes. The humor comes from the shared and well-known frustration among web developers who have to ensure their modern websites and applications work on Internet Explorer 11. IE11 is infamous for its poor support of modern web standards (like CSS Grid or modern JavaScript), requiring developers to spend significant extra time on workarounds, polyfills, and bug fixes. The idea of a 'support group' perfectly captures the feeling of a shared struggle against an obsolete technology that refuses to disappear, especially in enterprise environments
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My therapist told me to confront the things that haunt me. So, I opened the IE11 debugger, and now she has a therapist
Nothing screams “enterprise client” like the CI pipeline’s final step: transpile ES2022 into dial-up-era JavaScript so the lone IE11 kiosk in Accounting can load our micro-frontend monolith
The first rule of IE11 Support Group is you don't talk about flexbox. The second rule is you DEFINITELY don't talk about CSS Grid
Starting a support group for IE11 developers is noble, but the real challenge will be getting everyone to show up at the same time - half will still be waiting for their polyfills to load, and the other half will be stuck debugging why their CSS Grid fallback broke the entire layout in a browser that Microsoft itself abandoned years ago
Our boldest OKR this year is deleting 'ie 11' from browserslist without triggering a procurement escalation
IE11 support: where enterprise compliance turns modern JS into eternal ES5 penance
IE11: the only stakeholder that turns microfrontends into one bloated ES5 bundle and your architecture diagram into a Babel config