Proposal: Remove IE-only features
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Description
What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
for bcd and mdn docs, info about those IE-specified feature are all removed due to the retirement of Internet Explorer
the same thing should also be done in mdn/data repo
What did you expect to see?
remove all IE-specified features
Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?
- https://github.com/orgs/mdn/discussions/620
- https://death-to-ie11.com/
- https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/issues/15333 for similar discussion in BCD
- https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/issues/15619
- https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/32929 for similar discussion in mdn docs
- https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/33012
- https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/21718
- https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/21721
- https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/31473
- https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/32868
- https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/32861
Do you have anything more you want to share?
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked MDN discussions, browser-compat-data issues, and content issues and pull requests to determine the agreed scope. Then inventory the IE-specified features in mdn/data; the work is done when the agreed obsolete entries are removed from this repository.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- documentation, web-dev
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100