Dropping IE6 support would be a really great way to fork the GWT project. One would be focused on enterprise applications (w/ IE6 support), while the other would be focused on the more traditional GWT- ey things (like making things go really really fast).
And when I say "really great way", I mean that in the sense that the end of the world is described as "great" in the Bible. On Mar 17, 8:09 am, Rocky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Martinoviæ <[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.
