[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] OSM map no longer loads in IE11 (Issue #3387)

[Andy Allan]

I've opened #3388 as a workaround while we make the bigger decision on IE11 support.

As far as I understand it, we can do two things:

1) Keep using the latest versions of locatecontrol, and drop support for IE11 completely. This also means we can remove the es6 shim, and start using es6 things in our own JS code.
2) Set up a transpilation pipeline (e.g. via webpacker) to convert the es6 code into es5 code before it's sent to the browser.

I think 2) sounds like a lot of work for a small number of end users, but I don't know how small that number is. I think 1) would be my medium-term goal, but then we need to decide if that happens either now, in the medium term (e.g. mid 2022?) or in the long term (after all, we supported ie8 etc for quite some time after they were obsolete).

So I'm interested in what other people think about a) the options and b) the timeline.

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