On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:57:09 AM UTC+2, Brian Slesinsky wrote: >> >> Following up on discussion in: https://gwt-review.** >> googlesource.com/#/c/2900/<https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/#/c/2900/> >> >> There's been some talk about dropping IE 6/7 and it's confused the >> conversation a bit. I'd like to distinguish between what happens short term >> and how things will look by our next stable release. I expect that by GWT >> 2.6, IE6 and 7 support will be gone. People who use stable releases have >> opted in for big-bang, everything changing all at once and they can do it >> on whatever schedule is convenient to them, including not upgrading until >> they're ready. >> >> Short-term for those of us at trunk, it's a whole lot easier if we take >> it one step at a time. First add the new stuff, perhaps hiding it behind a >> flag. Turn it on by default. Then remove the old stuff. If these land as >> separate commits then we can verify that each one didn't break our >> customers before moving on to the next. I realize it's more work than a >> single atomic change, but it's a lot smoother. >> >> I'm fine with waiting on some patches until IE6/7 goes away entirely, but >> it's also possible to move a few steps forward on some things without >> waiting on a different patch. >> >> At the moment, I don't know anyone specifically working on removing >> IE6/7, which should proceed in a similar way. We've agreed that it should >> be done, but someone has to do it, and I'd expect it also to go one step at >> a time. I think the first step is to make sure everyone knows how to enable >> or disable the IE6/7 permutation (are any code changes necessary?), and the >> next step is to change the default so it's off. >> > > Does Google still support IE6/7 on some apps? I thought you only supported > IE9+ > Depends on the product. I see that Adwords is dropping IE8 soon: https://www.en.adwords-community.com/t5/Ad-Approvals-and-Advertising/Google-Ads-cease-support-for-Internet-Explorer-8/td-p/133766 Can't find it for Wallet but it says IE7+ for the API: https://developers.google.com/commerce/wallet/digital/faq#faq-technical-02 > If you don't support IE6/7, and we choose to drop IE6/7 support in the > next release, then 'master' could have a transition period where RPC simply > wouldn't work in IE6/7 without removing the ie6 permutation. > > BTW, disabling the IE6/7 permutation is only a matter of <set-property > name="user.agent" value="ie8,ie9,gecko1_8,safari,opera"/> right? > Perhaps. There was some talk about having a trivial permutation that just shows an alert if your browser is unsupported. We never had that before, though. - Brian -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
