We still need IE11 support in the banking sector. We still have a majority of customers that use IE11 due to technical reasons (plugins needed for accessing secure token don’t install properly in Chrome without internet access amongst others).
What do you mean with “next version of GWT” if that is 3.x then I don’t care at this point. We have been waiting for that release for a few years now. But 2.x releases should not drop IE11 support it is supposed to be a long-term supported version. On 12 Mar 2021, 07:54 +0100, bernhar...@schubec.com <bernhard.sch...@schubec.com>, wrote: > Hi all! > > I think IE11 support should be dropped soon if it blocks (or makes it > difficult) to implement new features in the next version of GWT. > I understand, that there are enterprises who still use IE11 internally, but > developers who service such enterprises should use the current version of > GWT, which is not going away. Nobody is forced to upgrade to the next version > of GWT. > > Thanks, > Berni > > > tony.be...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 11. März 2021 um 22:26:21 UTC+1: > > > IE 11 is still widely used inside corporations, because it is the only > > > browser that supports Java applets, and applications such as Oracle > > > e-Business Suite still use applets extensively (for Oracle forms). While > > > that segment does not move very fast, it does not mean other unrelated > > > groups within the same corporation are not updating GWT regularly. It is > > > hard to generalize In a multinational company with tens of thousands of > > > employees. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Tony > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 9:49 AM Jens <jens.ne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Dropping IE 8-10 shouldn't really hurt. Companies that require it are > > > > > probably not upgrading GWT in a fast pace anyways. > > > > > > > > > > However I wouldn't drop IE 11 anytime soon. IE 11 itself is tied to > > > > > the lifecycle of Microsoft's operating systems, which means for > > > > > Windows 10 it is supported until 2025 (for now). So just because MS > > > > > and Google drop support for IE 11 in some/all of their products, the > > > > > browser itself is still generally supported by MS. So we should think > > > > > twice before removing IE 11 from a library such as GWT, even if it > > > > > means to decline/revert certain commits if they break IE 11. From own > > > > > experience I have usually seen something around 8% of IE 11 usage in > > > > > GWT based apps. > > > > > > > > > > However I am pretty sure more and more companies will announce > > > > > dropping IE 11 this year or next year. With MS and Google starting, > > > > > this could easily have a domino effect. However GWT also also > > > > > strongly used internally inside companies so it might not have that > > > > > much of an effect in that area. > > > > > > > > > > If we ditch IE 8-10 and only leaving gecko1_8 and safari, can't we > > > > > kill them both as well and put them together? Are there so many > > > > > differences in code between both? From my work migrating GWT code to > > > > > elemental2/JsInterop I had the feeling that only some minor stuff is > > > > > different between both. So there shouldn't be that much overhead in > > > > > code size and performance doing (cached) runtime checks instead. > > > > > > > > > > -- J. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > 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 google-web-toolkit-co...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/031f1171-cce9-4c17-b717-80bb5730f7fdn%40googlegroups.com. > -- > 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 google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/99f9b82a-a56c-4c3e-b980-e3160581a486n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/5e524a19-81a2-44f6-8246-b25562b40861%40Spark.
