On 2 May 2014 at 08:59:11, [email protected]
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
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> On 2 May 2014 at 08:54:38, [email protected]
> ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
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> > Some recent stats:
> > http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/05/01/ie11-market-share-passes-ie10-ie9-combined-chrome-cements-lead-firefox/
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> > So IE8 is 20% in IE browsers, and IE is 57% of total browser shares.
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> "IE8 fell 0.29 percentage points, but it’s still the world’s most popular
> browser at 20.85 percent”
But also:
"IE8 fell 0.29 percentage points, but it’s still the world’s most popular
browser at 20.85 percent. IE11 continues to mainly steal market share from IE10
and IE9, since Windows XP users can’t upgrade past IE8, but now that support
has ended for the ancient OS, maybe that trend will finally change.”
Let’s hope that the fall will be brutal now that XP’s support has ended… :)
Thanks
-Vincent
> Thanks
> -Vincent
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> > 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:
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> > > 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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