Since IE will be retired on June 15th 2022, we're talking a bit about how it was back in the days when we had to support old IE versions. What does this retirement of IE mean to us as frontend developers? What about the UX side of the decision of dropping IE support? What problems will disappear together with the support of IE? What web features will we be able to use?

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"The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022"
IE retirement announcement:
Slack Huddle
https://slack.com/intl/en-dk/help/articles/4402059015315-Start-a-huddle-in-a-channel-or-direct-message
HTTP 203 - Is Safari the new IE?
https://http203.libsyn.com/is-safari-the-new-ie
Moving users to Microsoft Edge from Internet Explorer
https://docs.microsoft.com/da-dk/microsoft-edge/web-platform/ie-to-microsoft-edge-redirection
Browser-update
https://browser-update.org/
shame.css
https://csswizardry.com/2013/04/shame-css/
:focus-visible
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:focus-visible
object-fit
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit
CSS Scroll Snap
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Scroll_Snap
Flexbox gap
https://caniuse.com/flexbox-gap
WebP images
https://caniuse.com/webp
CSS Custom Properties
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_custom_properties
line-clamp
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/-webkit-line-clamp
:is()
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:is
:where()
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:where
String.includes
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/includes
Template Literals
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals
Dynamic Imports
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import#dynamic_imports

7: The fall of IE

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