On Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:11:22 PM UTC+2, Alex Epshteyn wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > Thanks for chiming in and providing the extra info. Good to know. > > I'd like to ask, however, the reasons for planning to remove support for > IE6/7/8? Why would we do that? It's already there and doesn't require too > much maintenance. >
Have a look at the I/O talk: http://youtu.be/Ul-LbfkJ-tw?t=10m20s > As of today, nearly 8% of my site's visitors are on IE8 and close to 1% > are still on IE7. These are pretty big numbers for a high traffic website, > and would translate into lost revenue if the browsers weren't supported. I > can't imagine Google pulling support for a browser with that kind of usage > for one of its products. . Here's the full data: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvMlWdpkpAA6dGdpa3lsZTVQWl9qcFJrWmZCZ0ZZb0E#gid=0 > > Also, as you guys can see from the data, stack emulation is still required > for 54% of my site's traffic. > > While I'd like to see users upgrading to the latest browsers as much as > any developer, let's be realistic: WinXP is not going away any time soon > (Microsoft dropping support for it isn't going to make people like my dad > go out and buy a new computer). Google Analytics is shows that 80% of my > users are on Windows and 21% of those are still on Windows XP: that is a > very big number! > There are many other browsers available on Windows XP, and you should tell your dad that by continuing using an unsupported browser, his computer is at risk. See also http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/01/the-impending-crisis-that-is-windows-xp.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
