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Drop Grade A support for IE10
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IE10 is the least used version of IE (behind 9,8,6 & 4! : https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sites-by-browser) with 0.07% of page views.

It is quite similar in features to IE11 but does still have some bugs that don't affect IE11 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/browser-support-internet-explorer/) and is much harder to debug as the F12 tools were only updated in IE11.

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I would second this. IE 10 is very rare since only Windows 8 still has it as a maximum version, and Windows 8 is aggressively EOL (Windows Update offers to update you to Windows 8.1, which has IE 11).

Change 413149 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/core@master] Drop Grade A support for IE10

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/413149

Change 413229 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/core@master] Add a feature requirement for CSS pointer-events

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/413229

Change 413229 abandoned by Esanders:
Add a feature requirement for CSS pointer-events

Reason:
using UA sniff

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/413229

Jdforrester-WMF assigned this task to Esanders.
Jdforrester-WMF edited projects, added User-notice; removed Patch-For-Review.
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.

Change 413149 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Drop Grade A support for IE10

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/413149