On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Colin Alworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds great, but is there a reason that we're now starting at IE9+ and > not IE10+, thus giving us typed arrays, web workers, web sockets, etc? I > only ask because the kind of case where you are giving up User (and Widget, > RPC, Timer, and other fairly high-level apis) seems to suggest that you > might not be writing for a browser at all (htmlunit, nashorn, web worker, > node.js). > > A cross-compiled app is a good example that doesn't need User where you can, for example, use closure to develop the UI. I specifically pointed IE8 as it is the only supported browser missing Object.create functionality and such apps that just depends on java.emul are paying the price of IE8. On the other hand by just inheriting useragent.UserAgent (not necessarily the User) an app can target older browsers. > Dan definitely has a point that if we're supporting modern browsers for a > core chunk of functionality, we really shouldn't let 'modern' be 'whatever > junk still happens to be running rather tha updating'. And besides, I can't > always be That Guy pushing to keep all versions forever, just because IE8 > is still 11% of North America's browser usage (really: > http://theie8countdown.com/). > > If we're cutting a browser for being old/bad/whatever in Core, but leaving > support for it still in User, we should consider carefully why we *aren't* > cutting deeper. > > Can you be more specific? > > On Monday, June 30, 2014 2:59:12 PM UTC-5, Goktug Gokdogan wrote: >> >> We are planning to drop support for IE8 if the application doesn't >> inherit c.g.gwt.useragent.UserAgent and hence not have browser permutations. >> >> Nearly all of today's apps inherit User so they will not be affected by >> this change. In the future more apps will only inherit Core however they >> shouldn't need to pay price of IE8 support (currently they do because there >> are no permutations in Core). >> >> Let me know if you have any concerns. >> >> - Goktug >> > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/45b68163-0d07-4a6c-9932-412232e2f71d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/45b68163-0d07-4a6c-9932-412232e2f71d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/CAN%3DyUA3RE5rhniA4t23odWbGxwXeo0Fdfbsz2n1SPyRN4E_1jg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
