@Ron Google is scheduled to drop support for IE8 in november (future) and that doesn't means none of its major apps won't work on IE 8 right away. There's a good chance Gmail, Google Search and more will still work. People will abandon XP now that support has ended but it will still be a few years before XP market shares drown to a few percent.
I don't think a new visitor that comes to a new site would go "Gee! They are right, I need a new browser if I wanna visit this website!" Obviously big players have more power to force users to update. Still it sucks. Just last weekend I had to update Skype on my grandpa's ipad 2 (released in 2011), cause the new Skype App didn't support iOS 4 (cause you know it's 3 years old!). He had a PC with XP (if 3 years is 'old' surely XP was archaeology right there!) and I couldn't update iOS using his iTunes (and I couldn't get iTunes to update). So I had to back up the iPad, make the iTunes update on my laptop, upgrade iOS and then reinstall all his stuff from his computer. So let recap: because his iPad is barely 3 years old, he was expected to buy a new PC to update his iOS in order to update Skype (If I had I not been there with my laptop). Oh and two other grandson had tried to solve his problem before me without success. And me it only took me five hours! And this is the new great paradigm?! === Our stats (reposting) *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. So in all it's about 10% or more that couldn't use Polymer. If you added all the people with mobilephone which webview are also lagging being and that would need an OS update to use Polymer, that would be a lot more. 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/CABJiLVtf91mAKp7MNwgSsNSadZa1b88RjG_kiJWEMepOwkm%2BEg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
