Since some of the core functionality of the framework, Material components, and CLI must work on IE11, supporting this legacy browser has resulted in complexity, compromises, or even in our inability to offer solutions that would take advantage of modern web APIs.
The worldwide usage of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) has been steadily declining for years, and is currently at 0.73% according to StatCounter and 1.70% according to NetMarketShare, meaning that a very small fraction of the overall world population uses this browser and benefits from our effort to support it.Īt the same time, IE11 is the last non-evergreen browser that Angular currently supports, and due to the feature gap between IE11 and evergreen browsers, it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide modern features in Angular while also preserving IE11 compatibility.
The Angular team is deprecating support for Internet Explorer 11 in Angular v12 (to be released in May 2021 and supported through November 2022), and plans to remove support for this browser in Angular v13 (late 2021).
