Same as Vincent. On 10/09/2017 07:52 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi Caty, > >> On 6 Oct 2017, at 16:55, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <vali...@gmail.com> 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 > > We also have limited manpower and we need to limit the # of versions we > support. However because of the large marketshare of IE11it wouldn’t be good > to drop its support FTM IMO. > > So I think we should try to support both Edge + IE11 and see how complex it > is. If too complex we can think of dropping IE11 or delaying support for Edge. > > So, I’m: > > A +1 > B -1 for now > C +1 > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >> Thanks, >> Caty >
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