Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
by Someone1234 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:38AM
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> Java applet deprecation is not a new or unforeseen development.
Not really a point of contention. Also not really relevant to this discussion. The whole "12 years ago a company [I didn't even work at] should have done X Y Z" isn't constructive, or remotely relevant to a discussion of IE Mode today and how it operates.
Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
by scarface74 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:15AM
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It’s not about you. It’s about how should Microsoft move forward, and how long should they support older tech because companies don’t prioritize migrations from older technology.
One of the major issues with Windows has always been that they have hack on top of hack to keep backwards compatibility. You can read Raymond Chen’s MSDN blog to get an idea of how bad it is.
The answer has to be somewhere between Apple - not long enough to be appropriate for the Enterprise - and too long in the case of Microsoft where it slows down development, causes an increase security vulnerability surface, and causes Windows to be a resource hog compared to other operating systems.
2. IE11 supports Java Applets. Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and others do not.
Those two sentences don’t go together. For all intents and purposes using Java applets in a browser is “IE only”.
Companies have invested tens of years into now defunct technologies. Suggesting they migrate tens of years of investment in an eighth of the time isn't at all realistic or constructive.
The industry has been moving away from Java applets since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. Java applet deprecation is not a new or unforeseen development.