Topic on Talk:Compact Personal Bar

Why is Internet Explorer support limited in Compact Personal Bar? I'm facing some problems with it and the Purge tool.

I filed a task at Phabricator and was rejected , them saying that it is out of scope.

Thanks for filing phab:T85460, I've merged it into the related bug ticket phab:T67073

I'm not a dev, so can't help explain why IE isn't supported yet (I know it's a very troublesome family of browsers though, as Microsoft is infamously bad about meeting web-standards.).

This used to be true in the past, but is no longer.

In fact, Internet Explorer 11 puts some interesting things in its user agent string to fool older-style browser detection scripts into thinking it's a Gecko-based browser (and Gecko-based browsers will be served the standards-compliant code while old versions of IE get served the old-style IE-specific code).

I honestly don't know why.

It works perfectly fine for me in Internet Explorer 11. Just because users of older versions of IE are experiencing problems does not mean it should be unsupported for IE11 too...

I don't know either. I experienced these problems with IE9 especially.

Can't test now with IE11 , as it seems to be disabled currently.

Force enable it by adding this line into your vector.js:

mw.loader.load("skins.vector.compactPersonalBar");

Bypass your browser's cache, then try.