@Fabrice I disagree, companies have already started dropping support for IE8, (Google being one of them). http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2014/08/08/microsoft_sets_end-of-life_for_all_internet_explorer_versions_before_11
Which means 2 years before they are cutting the browsers before IE11, but then again depending on your market Chrome is the most popular browser. Which is the reason you have to know what your traffic is like. If you are a new site, what do you care if you tell people to download chrome if they are running IE8 or IE9 it is for their benefit. One of the Best parts about chrome is typically any user can install it even with out admin. Then depending on what stats you get your information IE8 is under 10% worldwide http://matthewmorek.com/blog/dropping-ie8-support And according to most of polymer's documentation IE9 should work for most of the items but will only be supported for IE10+ So if you are developing a project that will not be launched for 6 months to a year why not start looking into polymer, I think what polymer brings to the table will in the long run help make developing web sites easier and quicker for those who know how. Ron On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 11:16:36 PM UTC-7, Fabrice Lorenceau wrote: > > @Karl: Just wishing them away is not going to happen. People hang on to > phone, tablets and computers they bought for as long as possible and most > won't (and sometimes cannot) update the browser. There are actually plenty > cases where people cant update browsers: when it's a company device, or > because they bought an Android that was modified by the OEM or Network > provider and will never get latest releases of Android (and thus Webview > that supports Polymer hybrid Mobile Apps), or because it would perform too > slowly if they updated to the latest version of the OS... > So old browsers will fade away only as users stop using their devices. > Developers will rarely adopt a product that only fits less than the vast > majority of their users. This is why Polymer would only -- in my opinion -- > get adopted in 3 to 5 years if it only supports evergreen/modern browsers... > > I really like the suggestion about using Crosswalk along with Polymer ( > https://crosswalk-project.org/#documentation/cordova). If I ever decide > to use Polymer, that's the first thing I would look into to see if using > Crosswalk we can achieve decent browser support for our users. > > 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/24a827bf-205c-4c90-a159-1b903f6570f8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
