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Janne Jalkanen commented on JSPWIKI-89:
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No, what it means that the burden of supporting IE6 moves from us to the IT
departments of the companies who are not willing to make the switch. There is
always a cost involved in sticking with ancient versions; and this is just one
of them.
One can still install new versions of JSPWiki, it's just that they may have to
tweak the CSS to work for you. Since these companies probably already have a
custom CSS skin for the intranet (logos and whatnot), I don't see that as a
very big problem.
Heck, even Microsoft's own pages don't always render correctly with IE6 these
days :-).
Point being, it's simply too expensive in time and effort to support anymore
for us, since we have to do it for every single template/CSS file that we ship
with, and it's likely that the few companies still stuck with IE6 will rewrite
portions of the stuff anyway.
But hey, if someone *wants* to start supporting IE6, then we'll gladly accept
patches. But ATM the consensus seems to be that we don't really want to delay
another release because of IE6 bugs (which has happened a few times before).
> Drop support for Internet Explorer 6
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> Key: JSPWIKI-89
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-89
> Project: JSPWiki
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Default template
> Reporter: Janne Jalkanen
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.0
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> Original Estimate: 0h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> As Microsoft is pushing IE 7 to almost all desktops out there, the question
> is, how much longer do we need to keep supporting IE6? I understand Dirk has
> had many issues with IE support, so how long do we want to keep it on our
> support list for the default template? There is a certain point during which
> the effort brings no significant gain.
> I'm opening this item here so we can keep track of it here, but I'm not yet
> assigning a version before we've discussed this thoroughly. If JSPWiki was
> consumer software, then the decision would be easy, but there are loads of
> companies out there who're still standardized on IE6.
> IE6 still has a ~30% market share, but it's waning.
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
> Of course, it took about four years for IE5 to drop from 30% to 5%, so this
> Issue might be here for a long time...
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