Let's talk about IE 8-10 and JS-first ecosystem priorities for a minute. Statcounter shows IE 8-10, collectively, to represent 0.17% of public browsing. That's right, one sixth of one percent.https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1233217702103150593 …
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This is *deadweight loss*. The desktop-legacy-first tools have dug in and are constrained by their exisiting constituencies. Moving to a better location on the reach/richness chart has perverse incentives attached: dropping legacy runtimes means saying "no" to existing users...
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...whereas, lightening up gets you very few additional developers signing on *because developers live in the high-perf bubble*. And nobody -- not browsers, not devtools, not search engines -- have deployed sufficient penalties for incrementally bad behavior toward most users.
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Statcounter also shows IE 11 at 1.5% of public browsing. Together, if statcounter is to be beleived, that means IE 8-11 are LESS THAN TWO PERCENT of traffic. Chrome for Android is the largest browser in their dataset today. How much time do you and your team spend on Android?
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Where/how would you expect someone to be able to measure this sort of loss?
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Ablation studies are easiest.
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I’m sure I support your argument but I don’t see how the 8-10 and framework sizes are related. Is react ie 8 compatible and preact is not??
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React only dropped IE8 w/ 16, and still supports 9 & 10

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