On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Brian Slesinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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/
>>>
>>> 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.

Isn't there gwt:onPropertyErrorFn already for that use-case?
We need to document it though:
https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=8135

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