I agree, Matt. Not advocating strongly for prioritizing mobile now, but I could 
see value in using tablets to do read-only checks on nodes in physically 
distributed scenarios.

Andy LoPresto
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> On Jan 22, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Safari is certainly supported and I neglected to include it in my original
> post. Sorry about that. We currently state in the user guide that we
> support Safari 8. I'll do a little research but I'll likely use a relative
> version like we're doing with Firefox and Chrome to keep things consistent
> with the other browsers.
> 
> We do not support mobile clients right now. NiFi was designed as a desktop
> application for building complex data flows. However, that doesn't mean
> that we can't offer an alternate experience for mobile clients in the
> future. Maybe something more geared towards monitoring. Something we should
> consider post 1.0.0 once we're able to incorporate more responsive design
> elements [1].
> 
> Matt
> 
> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Redesign+User+Interface
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Matt. I didn’t see any mention of Safari (OS X) [1] or MobileSafari
>> (iOS). Same with Chrome for Mobile [2]. Are mobile clients supported at all?
>> 
>> [1] http://www.apple.com/safari/
>> [2] https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/mobile/
>> 
>> Andy LoPresto
>> [email protected]
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>> On Jan 22, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I wanted to take a moment to revisit this topic. As previously stated, the
>> version of FireFox and Chrome that will be officially supported is
>> 'Current' and 'Current - 1' simply based on some of the dependencies that
>> we utilize as outlined earlier.
>> 
>> Due to Microsoft officially dropping technical support and security updates
>> for older versions of IE [1] and IE's issues regarding dynamically updating
>> SVG Path's documented in NIFI-207 [2] it makes sense to declare official
>> support for Microsoft Edge. I have confirmed that the SVG Path issue is
>> resolved in Edge which shipped with Windows 10.
>> 
>> NiFi may continue to run successfully in older browser versions, however it
>> will not be actively tested against them. I will be updating our website
>> and user guides where appropriate.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/End-of-IE-support
>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-207
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> Thanks for kicking this thread off.  I personally am mostly focused on
>> us documenting our commitment and then working to that.  Even if the
>> approach we have is strict such as 'current minus one' at least having
>> it clearly documented gives community members and users the chance to
>> choose wisely and provide feedback if they need more.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Joe
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Folks,
>> 
>> NIFI-1323 [1] will start working on some of the UI improvements that has
>> been discussed on this mailing list recently. While planning out what we
>> could introduce for 0.5.0 I realized that we don't have established
>> 
>> minimum
>> 
>> browser versions listed anywheres. I plan to update our website with
>> 
>> these
>> 
>> details. Below I am going to list the capabilities the UI employs and the
>> external libraries we use along with the minimum versions supported by
>> each.
>> 
>> svg - (IE 9, FF 3, Chrome 4)
>> localStorgage - (IE 8, FF 3.5, Chrome 4)
>> jQuery 2 - (IE 9, FF (Current and Current - 1), Chrome (Current and
>> 
>> Current
>> 
>> - 1)) [2]
>> d3 - (IE 9, FF (modern), Chrome (modern))
>> codemirror - (IE 8, FF 3, Chrome (any))
>> 
>> We need to take the lowest common denominator amougst these dependencies.
>> Due to our usage of jQuery our officially supported versions of FireFox
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> Chrome are Current and Current - 1. While the application may run
>> successfully in older browsers versions it will not be actively tested
>> against them.
>> 
>> Our current IE support is IE 9. However, in IE 10/11 there was a
>> 
>> regression
>> 
>> that prevents SVG paths from being updated dynamically. So while we
>> technically support these browsers, Connections do not move once they
>> 
>> have
>> 
>> been created. This means if that you move a Component on the graph, the
>> Connection does not move with it. This has been documented here [3] and
>> references the Microsoft IE ticket as well. It appears that the browser
>> that shipped with Windows 10 has addressed these issues.
>> 
>> There are a few features we've discussed adding that would require
>> 
>> bumping
>> 
>> the minimum IE version to IE 11 (specifically, flexbox CSS3 layout mode
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> dropzone.js). Due to our stance on FireFox and Chrome versions I want to
>> propose keeping our minimum IE version modern as well (specifically IE 11
>> in this case). This will allow us to continue building cutting edge user
>> experiences and data visualizations.
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1323
>> [2] https://jquery.com/browser-support/
>> [3]
>> 
>> 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-207?focusedCommentId=14262213&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14262213
>> 
>> 
>> 

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