858f477 frontend: drop dependencies to orphaned javascript packages

2 files Authored by frostyx 3 years ago, Committed by schlupov 3 years ago,
    frontend: drop dependencies to orphaned javascript packages
    
    First, let's clarify what those packages are, `js-html5shiv`:
    
    > The HTML5 Shiv enables use of HTML5 sectioning elements in legacy Internet
    > Explorer and provides basic HTML5 styling for Internet Explorer 6-9, Safari 4.x
    > (and iPhone 3.x), and Firefox 3.x.
    
    And `js-respond`:
    
    > The goal of this script is to provide a fast and lightweight (3kb minified /
    > 1kb gzipped) script to enable responsive web designs in browsers that don't
    > support CSS3 Media Queries - in particular, Internet Explorer 8 and under.
    > It's written in such a way that it will probably patch support for other
    > non-supporting browsers as well.
    
    Internet Explorer 8 is now dead for a couple of years
    
    > Effective January 12, 2016, Internet Explorer 8 is no longer
    > supported on any client or server version of Windows, due to new
    > policies specifying that only the newest version of IE available
    > for a supported version of Windows will be supported. By
    > January 16, 2018, Microsoft has ended support for IE8.
    
    I didn't find the official reason why those packages got orphaned but
    I persume that it is because nobody longer cares about IE8. IMHO we
    can safely drop the code instead of maintaining those packages by ourselves.
    
        
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