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We cataloged browser fallbacks and workarounds in the github.com codebase so we can track them and remove obsolete code. - 232 WebKit - 169 Chromium - 72 Firefox - 18 Edge - 12 Internet Explorer

13/8/26, 1:43 pm0 reposts2 likes

Dylan Smith

@dylanatsmith.com

13 Aug

Guess who has 12 PRs up.

Matt Andrews

@mattandrews.info

13 Aug

Out of interest, how much IE traffic does GitHub see each month? Or is it literally zero

Dylan Smith

@dylanatsmith.com

13 Aug

I assume zero. I didn’t check. We don’t support it. docs.github.com/en/get-start...

Dylan Smith

@dylanatsmith.com

13 Aug

Apparently it was ~5,000 page views in July.

Keith Cirkel

@keithamus.social

13 Aug

Send me the list I'll get those 72 down.

Dylan Smith

@dylanatsmith.com

13 Aug

lol deal. Hoping a lot of these are already unnecessary though, and just never got removed when browsers progressed.

Dylan Smith

@dylanatsmith.com

13 Aug

For example, I just picked one issue at random and the comment says Firefox doesn’t support the `beforeinput`, but it shipped in 2021 in v87.