Thanks for sharing your opinions, RobG and Nathan.
Though, opinions aside, the question still remains; what is jQuery's
strategy for keeping/deprecating support for browsers such as IE6?
On Jan 12, 1:24 pm, Nathan Klatt n8kl...@gmail.com wrote:
IE 6 use is 3 times that of Safari (all versions) depending on whose
statistics you believe. Why not drop support for Safari while you're
at it? And Opera and Chrome?
Because you don't have to do anything to support Safari or
Here's a post from John's blog in which he touches the topic of a
general strategy for browser support:
http://ejohn.org/blog/the-browsers-of-2009/
He also briefly writes about it in his (latest?) book:
http://www.manning.com/resig/
Finally, John's (and thus jQuery's) testing strategy is to
If w3schools' statistics are at all accurate, there are about the same
number of people using IE 6 as either IE 7 or 8
Stats like that are nice, but I'd be curious to see what kinds of
browser stats there are for other people running a (relatively) busy
site? real people, like on this list...
It would be really stupid (for a JS library) to cut off any browser
with market-share above 1%, especially IE6 which won't go below 1%
until maybe 2011.
You can be sure, they won't do that.
The big sites (Youtube, Facebook, ...) are doing a good job in asking
their visitors to upgrade, but IE6
You are echoing my own thoughts :-)
Still, I see stop supporting IE6 discussions even for JS libraries,
like it is doing the right thing to help evolve the web. I can
understand the reasoning although I don't agree with it. So, I think
it would be good if core devs could speak up on their
On Jan 11, 10:47 pm, mikewse mike...@gmail.com wrote:
What is jQuery's long-term strategy for browser support - cut off
browsers after a certain number of years or when going below a certain
market share?
[I'm asking because of the current trend (among some webdevs and also
library
IE 6 use is 3 times that of Safari (all versions) depending on whose
statistics you believe. Why not drop support for Safari while you're
at it? And Opera and Chrome?
Because you don't have to do anything to support Safari or Chrome or
Opera - they actually work. To stop supporting them you'd
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