Bootstrap, a UI framework used by 20% of internet sites, is dropping IE support

guest · Apr 11, 2020

Bootstrap, a UI framework used by 20% of internet sites, is dropping IE support
WordPress team is also considering a ways to gracefully degrade de CMS for older IE versions
April 11, 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/boots...-20-of-internet-sites-is-dropping-ie-support/

A web framework used by a fifth of all internet websites plans to drop support for Internet Explorer 10 and 11. The move is scheduled for Bootstrap v5, set to be released later this year.

Bootstrap is a user interface (UI) framework initially designed at Twitter and later open-sourced. The library is basically a collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript UI widgets.
The framework gained a near cult-like following in the web development community because of its ease of use, excellent documentatio [...]
Today, Bootstrap is used by roughly 20.4% of all internet sites, according to W3Techs, and more than 20 million sites, according to BuiltWith.
A BIG MOVE IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS
However, Bootstrap's move to drop IE is a milestone. None of the major web-dev projects have yet to make a similar decision. For example, jQuery, today's top JavaScript library (used on almost three-quarters of all internet sites), still supports IE 9.

With IE 10 market share under 1% and with IE 11 market share around 1-2%, Bootstrap's decision to drop support will likely be the go-ahead sign from a major project that it's ok for developers to move on from supporting IE for good.
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And if Bootstrap's move wasn't significant enough for IE's future in the web-dev scene, the team behind WordPress, a CMS used by a third of all internet sites, is also looking into a "graceful degradation" for handling IE users. Basically, the plans are for WordPress to support IE, but not all of the CMS' features will work as intended.
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