Some companies have slow upgrade cycles but we can still have sympathy for the developers who work for them. But I agree that since upgrading GWT is optional (for those using stable releases), we shouldn't have to worry about them too much.
Note that Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP next year [1] and Windows 7 shipped with IE8. [1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Note that, just to make things clear for everyone, removing the ie6 > permutation means removing support for "IE8 in IE7 mode" and quirks mode > (this one has been discouraged, if not deprecated, for years now). > > This is a step forward and, if you ask me, I don't care about those > companies that don't get "the Web" and live 5 years in the past: if they're > OK with that, they won't mind being stuck to GWT 2.5.1 or 2.6. Otherwise, > GWT is open source, they can fork it and backport fixes from future > versions (and in the unlikely event they "get OSS", they can make the fork > public and grow a community). > Le 28 mai 2013 00:23, "John A. Tamplin" <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:40 AM, stuckagain <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Decisions on browser support seems to be mostly driven by Google >>> statistics ... but many GWT apps are running outside of the internet. The >>> apps that I am maintaining and developing run in a banking environment, >>> where the browser usage statistics are a lot different - IE8 is the king, >>> Chrome is nearly non existant and FireFox is growing. Most banks are very >>> reluctant to switch browsers because they have a lot of software strictly >>> qualified to a specific version and Windows does not allow co-instalation >>> of multiple versions of IE. (Chrome and FireFox is a differetn discussion, >>> but most banks do not use those right now). >>> >>> Banking is still one of the bigger markets of software development, so >>> somehow I hope you want to consider supporting IE8 in some form in the near >>> future. I guess until 2014 seems like a reasonable timerange. for us, but >>> certainly not faster. >>> >> >> At the GWT meetup, there wasn't really consensus on anything regarding >> IE8 other than not before 3.0 next May. >> >> -- >> John A. Tamplin >> >> -- >> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-web-toolkit-contributors/NWyaRsfy0-Q/unsubscribe?hl=en-US >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- > 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. > > > -- 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.
