Some recent stats: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/05/01/ie11-market-share-passes-ie10-ie9-combined-chrome-cements-lead-firefox/
So IE8 is 20% in IE browsers, and IE is 57% of total browser shares. Good news is that IE11 is growing up quickly :) Thanks -Vincent On 11 Mar 2014 at 15:13:04, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > Hi devs, > > This mail is about voting to drop support for IE8 in 6.x cycle. > > The issue is more complicated, since according to our 'Browser Support > Strategy' [1] we are supporting IE8, IE9 and the latest versions of FF, > Chrome (+ Safari5). > > IE8 was released in March 2009 (4 years ago) > IE9 - March 2011 (2 years ago) > IE10 - Sept 2012 (17 months ago) > IE11 - Oct 2013 (4 month ago) > > With the release of IE11 some companies also dropped their support for IE9, > so we should also adjust our support strategy by supporting newer browsers > (IE10, IE11) and dropping the support for old ones (IE8, IE9). > > According to Statcounter for the last 6 month period > http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201309-201402-bar the > most popular IE browsers are IE10 (8.48%) and IE8 (7.98%). > > While the market share is not neglectable there is something you need to > consider: > In 6.x we want to add a new skin: Flamingo. Ideally this skin should be > responsive. In order to assure responsiveness we need media query support. > IE8 doesn't has support for media query natively, we would need Respond.js > [2] to enable it. > While this solution exist, 6.x will be ready at the end of 2014 when I > suspect the market share for IE8 will drop. > > Additional to not having media query support, there are other CSS3 > properties and HTML5 elements that are not fully supported by IE8 > (border-radius, box-shadow, transition, etc.). > > This is my +1 to drop support for IE8 in 6.x > > Thanks, > Caty > > [1] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy > [2] https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
