Hello all, Here are my votes:
A. +1 B. -1 C. +1 Thanks, Manuel On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) <[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 > > > > 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 > > > > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ >
