I think that users need to be pushed in this way in order to speed up upgrade process.
Also, I'm not saying that IE6 support should be retroactevly taken out from current GWT version. If you need to support IE6, you could still use excellent GWT 2.0. But you'll get no support for it. Since it's open-source project, you could still resolve problems with it, but you would be on your own. I don't see what's annoying about asking developers (of the toolkit or of the applications based on toolkit) to stop supporting IE6. I'm sure that tookit's developers would love to stop bothering themselves with IE6's insufficiencies. I have looked at GWT's source code and there are A LOT of widgets where you have one implementation for IE6 and the other one for all the other browser. As time passes it would become more and more difficuilt to maintain all that different implementations. On Mar 17, 2:48 pm, Pascal <[email protected]> wrote: > I disagree completely. There are still a lot of people using IE6 in > the corporate world. One place where GWT really shines is to help > deliver rich in functionality, business-focused applications, given > the complexity management that java gives you.. Dropping support for > IE6 would be a major problem for a lot of developpers who use it to > target these users as telling them to upgrade from IE6 is at this > point still not an option. GIven the pressure is increasing on users > to upgrade, we'll get there but a lot of people still need this > support at this point and telling developpers to stop upgrading gwt > would be a real annoyance. > > Pascal > > On 17 mar, 08:23, Rade Martinović <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The size of the population of IE6 users is the ONLY reason to keep IE6 > > support in GWT. > > If you're interested in IE6, you could always use old version of the > > toolkit. I'm saying that next major version of the toolkit, say GWT 3.0 > > should drop IE6 support completely. > > > Also, I'm saying since other Google teams are forcing its users to upgrade, > > maybe everyone should do it. > > -- > > ~~Rade~~ > > > 2010/3/17 Erron <[email protected]> > > > > -1 > > > > I'm sure I'm not the only one who still has clients that still use > > > IE6. The population of users still using IE6 is still too big to be > > > disregarded. > > > > On Mar 17, 7:45 am, Rocky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Since Google started advising its users to drop IE6, and will be > > > > dropping IE6 support from its applications such as GMail, when can we > > > > expect definite break with IE6 support in GWT? > > > > > What do you think about dropping IE6 support completely from GWT? It > > > > would make some big changes in code and many workarounds that are > > > > existent in current code would be gone, and code would be a lot > > > > cleaner? > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubs[email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
