Thanks Rob and I understand that the Polymer is advancing the future of the web. I am just wondering if the best way to reach the future faster is not to find a somewhat elegant way to deal with the past (and that's what I understand has worked best in the past to advance the web...)
When HTML5 new input tags was introduced I thought it was great how older browser would just treat these fields as text input. It really helped adopt HTML5's new inputs. Couldn't there be a similar way to achieve this with Polymer? We still get around over *15%* of our traffic coming from older versions of major browsers, 2,5% from Opera and Opera Mini, and a little under 1% from browsers that I don't know how they would behave (Opera Mini, Opera, Ovi Browser, Blackberry, Maxthon, Amazon Silk, Dolfin, PS3, IE with Google Frame,...). So despite my huge enthusiasm to discuss with my team adopting Polymer for YouFoot, we can't just cross out 15% of our users and it will probably take 3 years for this 15% to become less than 5%, and 5 years to become less than 1%. It would have been particularly great to adopt it to create a more consistant look across web and mobile devices, make interfaces more beautiful, code leaner... --------------------------- *Internet Explorer:* Speaking of IE which amount for 15% of our sessions: 33% of these are from IE 9 or previous (almost half is from IE9 and and half from IE8, with a small amount from IE7). Fun fact: we even have a few users connecting from IE5 and IE4 apparently! *Firefox:* For us Firefox represent 22% of browser usage. While you are right that it's generally better, you'd be surprised to see we get 205 different versions of Firefox. While 80% of it are from Firefox 30 and 29 we also have almost 1% on version 12, 0,5% on version 11, etc... There might be 5% of Firefox users on versions below version 10 (with version 3 and 4 being pretty popular still). *Chrome* Chrome sees the most usage with 48,8% but while 79% are using version 35, the next version that is most used is version 1,5 with 2,4% of Chrome users. There are more than 1000 different versions being used although 990 versions probably amount to less than 2% *Safari:* Safari is only 2,9% of our usage. Among that 7% are using Safari 5 or older. Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/caff08ee-e9e1-408c-a8fc-f96cd3bc1145%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
