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Why is IE not officially supported?

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Leaderboard (talkcontribs)

Why is that? On your page , it says that it plans to support IE9 +, but even editing on IE11 brings up a warning that it is not 'officially supported'. Even though it is better than before (where IE users were blocked fully) , I'd like to know why is IE not getting full support for the latest versions. Is there something missing?

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Internet Explorer is very different (internally) than any other browser, and some of its "features" cause VisualEditor (and most other advanced web tools) to break. It will be officially supported when we think that it's actually working as well as the others. As you noted, things have significantly improved. For a long while, Internet Explorer's "security" system refused to allow editors to save pages. (That's why it was entirely disabled for months: imagine spending a long tim fixing an article, only to have IE refuse to let you save your work at the last second.)

Don-kun (talkcontribs)

Saving edits using Visual Editor is still not possible with the internet explorer, at least on my parents pc. Maybe you should check if it really works now (or the IE has to be updated, don't know).

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hi User:Don-kun,

Would you please find out the version of Internet Explorer on your parents' PC? I would really appreciate it. Also, please let me know what version of Windows they're running.

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