On 9 Jun 2015 at 13:18:16, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:49 AM, [email protected] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 8 Jun 2015 at 15:41:15, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ([email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > One year ago (Mar 2014) [1] we discussed dropping support for IE8 for the > > > 6.x cycle. The vote did not pass. > > > > > > Since then, we started the support for IE10/IE11 (Jun 2014) [2]. > > > > > > You can see some statistics and the current browsers we support at > > > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy > > > > > > This mail is about voting the drop of support for IE8/IE9 for cycle 7.x. > > > WDYT? > > > > > > My +1 > > > > Well, IE8+9 still account for close to 30% of browser shares according to > > your link. Is it wise to drop a potential 30% user base? :) > > > > What’s the current status of IE8/9 in XWiki 7.1 for example (Do we have > > lots of opened issues for them)? > > > > WDYM by dropping support: Do we remove code specific to support IE8/9 now > > or do we just stop fixing issues raised for IE8/9 from now on and we remove > > the specific code in 8.0? > > > > > There is a high chance the skin will work on IE8, especially since the > first versions of Flamingo was tested on IE8 and we added Respond.js and > HTML5Shiv just for this case. > > Dropping support means that we will not particularly test on that version > of browser, nor prioritizing fixing issues for it. We will focus on newer > versions. We will still apply commits if contributors are interested. > > Regarding fixing issues on IE8, on several occasions I fixed issues for IE8 > in BFDs. > > Now if you consider that the user base is still great, we could leave the > issues still open (instead of closing them as 'Not supported anymore'). The > main problem is that if you look at the Dashboard listing issues marked > with IE > http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?filter=13809 > http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13102 > all open issues (except 1) are reported by active contributors, not by > community user members. And that is because we still support the browser: > still doing tests on it and providing fixes. For such an old browser is a > waste of resources IMO. +0 Thanks -Vincent > Thanks, > Caty > > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > Thanks, > > > Caty > > > > > > > > > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/es5ghym4gphlj4mz > > > [2] http://markmail.org/thread/mzvcovh2da2t4e3w > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
