Hey all!

Earlier this week, a pull request was merged to hide Internet Explorer from the compatibility tables on MDN Web Docs. This decision was made in response to the official consumer End of Life of Internet Explorer12 on June 15, 2022, as well as the fact that worldwide market share for IE has dropped to 0.28% (as of July 2022)3 and has a maximum region-specific usage of 1.66% in China4, far below any of the other browsers we record BCD for.

With the official EOL, the declining usage statistics, and the countless security vulnerabilities that will never be fixed in the browser, we decided that it was time for us to no longer display IE compatibility data as to discourage web developers from writing IE-compatible websites. We highly encourage web developers to port their IE-only websites to modern browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Note that the raw data is still available for the time being in the browser-compat-data repository5, and is currently still accessible through the Node.js package and partner sites like https://caniuse.com/ for those who absolutely need the compatibility data. However, the data should be considered legacy data as it will not be maintained and will eventually be removed entirely.