Moodle announced that support for IE would be dropped back in August
2020 with Moodle 3.9 but not active steps were taken at that time. That
decision was made in MDLSITE-6109 and this particular step was meant to
be taken in Moodle 3.10.
This is the first step taken to actively drop support for IE.
This commit also bumps the browser support pattern from 0.25% to 0.3%.
The percentage here includes any browser where at least this percentage
of users worldwide may be using a browser. In this case it causes
support for Android 4.3-4.4 to be dropped, which relate to Android
KitKat (released 2013).
This combination of changes means that all of the supported browsers in
our compatibility list support modern features including async,
for...of, classes, native Promises, and more which has a huge impact on
the ease of debugging code, and drastically reduces the minified file
size because a number of native Polyfills included by Babel are no
longer included.
Unfortunately the babel minify-mangle plugin seems to be abandoned and
in certain circumstances can be very buggy. The only safe options are to
disable it, or to switch to a different minification library.
Not minifying our javascript is not ideal, so this commit updates the
javascript tasks to use a rollup, combined with babel, and terser.
Babel still converts code from ES/UMD/AMD to AMD modules with the
relevant browser support, whilst terser minifies the code.
The rollup bundler handles tracking and creation of sourcemaps, and
supports better parallelisation of the tasks.
Since the upgrade to Node LTS/Gallium requires an upgrade to @babel/core
and eslint, which change the built files anyway, this seems like the
ideal time to make this change.
Instead of showing competencies in a dialogue, give them their own full url to
display the competency in the framework it belongs to. This is useful for exported
data that won't have access to javascript.
Changes
- add custom-select to all select fields
- add btn btn-primary/secondary to all buttons
- add list-inline to all lists with inline class
- style dropdowns like a bootstrap menu
- add col-md-6 to span6
I have spent quite a lot of time working through the current list of
eslint options and configuring them for Moodle style and I think this is
a very good basis to start us at (as well as taking some of out jshint
options out with https://www.npmjs.com/package/polyjuice ). Thanks to
Andrew Nicols, Mark Johnson and Frédéric Massart for some refinements.
With this configuration the grunt build will fail if errors are present
in the js (though you can of course tell jshint to ignore some errors,
as I have done in admin/tool/lp/amd/src/competency_rule_points.js and
defining the Y global in lib/amd/src/yui.js ).
The grunt task will not report warnings by default, but a new
--show-lint-warnings flag will help achieve that. Editor
integrations/stanadalone eslint tool will surely be a better way of
getting eslint errors rather than using the grunt task.
When trying to select a user or competency the first select
would not work. Worked fine on the second select. This fixes
that problem and tidies up the code.
