On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > This mail is about: > A. Dropping support for IE10 > B. Dropping support for IE11 > C. Adding support for Microsoft Edge > > --- > > If you read our Browser Support Strategy ( > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy ) we > are still supporting Internet Explorer 10. > > We started its support since Jun 17, 2015. In practice we don't perform > full tests on IE10, focusing mostly on IE11. The last performed tests for > IE10 where in Jan 2017, for XWiki 8.4.4 ( > http://test.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/QA/XWiki%208.4.4#|t=qa&p=1&l=15&s=test&d=asc&browser=10 > ). > > On another note, Microsoft Edge replaced Internet Explorer as the default > web browser since the release of Windows 10 (launched Jul 2015). Internet > Explorer 11 is maintained on Windows 10 for compatibility purposes, but is > deprecated in favor of Edge and is no longer actively developed. > > Instead of supporting "Internet Explorer 10.x-Latest" + "We support IE > browsers, starting with version 10." we actually should say (in case the > vote is passing) "Internet Explorer 11 + Microsoft Edge". > > We might even considered dropping support for IE 11 and just keep Microsoft > Edge, since that's the latest version of Windows supported browser. > Although, IE11 currently still has a better usage than Microsoft Edge. I > could not found any performed tests for Microsoft Edge on our test wiki. > > --- > > In terms of xwiki.org website usage for the past 12 months, we have: > - 5.46% sessions for Internet Explorer > -- IE11: 91.50% > -- IE10: 2.80% > - 1.43% sessions for Edge (multiple versions) > > In terms of worldwide market share for the past 12 months (according to > http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/ ), for desktops, we > have: > - 8.21% IE > - 4.3% Edge > > Usage example for August 2017: > - 7.1% for IE11 > - 2.26% for Edge 15 > - 1.37% for Edge 14 > - 0.2% for Edge 13 > > --- > > So my votes are: > A. Dropping support for IE10 > +1 > > B. Dropping support for IE11 > -0, because of bigger usage compared to Microsoft Edge. Still, I don't > think we have the man-power to support tests on both browsers types. > > C. Adding support for Microsoft Edge > +1, because this is the latest supported browser for Windows > > Thanks, > Caty
A. +0 B. -1 would not make sense given its market share compared to Edge C. +1 since supporting the current default browser on Windows is the least we can do -- Thomas Mortagne
