As I see it, the only time it might be a problem, is if I'm using a field laptop that lives in the truck and doesn't get updated very often... but as long as the basic functions work with old browsers, it really shouldn't be a big deal.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Darin Steffl <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't worry about the 5-10% of people running old browsers. It's easy to > tell customers to use a modern browser to gain full functionality. It's > easy and free to upgrade browsers. > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> A bit of a survey here.... >> >> A couple of features I'm looking at for current/future products would be >> much easier to implement using a certain feature found only in relatively >> new web browsers, aka, Chrome/Firefox/Edge updated within the last year. >> >> One specific browser feature I'm looking at is webassembly. Various >> tools out there indicate that around 87% of the installed/active browsers >> on the internet are recent enough for native support. Most of the >> browsers gained support for this feature early to mid last year. With >> autoupdates being the rule instead of the exception, anyone on a recent >> auto-updating web browser should support this. I'm mostly concerned about >> 'the rest'. >> >> Support for the older browsers is possible, but it adds a level of >> complexity (specifically a level of testing) which I would prefer not to do >> if I could get away without it. >> >> To be clear: Almost all of the functionality of the upcoming products >> won't require these functions. A specific example of something that might >> require this is setting up the scripting functionality as I'm looking at >> various technologies which would work best if I could run a chunk of >> webassembly code in the browser as part of the code editor. However, other >> than editing a script, the rest of the functionality would work fine. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* >> Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=3577+Countryside+Road,+Helena,+MT+59602&entry=gmail&source=g> >> [email protected] | http://www.packetflux.com >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> >> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> >> >> > > > -- > Darin Steffl > Minnesota WiFi > www.mnwifi.com > 507-634-WiFi > <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> Like us on Facebook > <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> >
