On 2 May 2014 at 08:54:38, [email protected]
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
> 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.
"IE8 fell 0.29 percentage points, but it’s still the world’s most popular
browser at 20.85 percent”
Thanks
-Vincent
> 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
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