Hi T.J. With the speed of which modern browsers release updates and move toward HTML5 - I think there will be no significant differences between them in a year. IE8 will not be alive in a year in the light of Windows8 with IE10 and canceling support XP - so there will be IE9 and IE10 which a close to other browsers. An optional ability to build library without of support of old browsers will be the big advance for most developers - small size, fast execution! At least there might be two versions of the library - for supporting old browsers - 1.7 and for modern - 2.0 :)
-----Original Message----- From: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com [mailto:prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of T.J. Crowder Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:13 PM To: Prototype & script.aculo.us Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Future of Prototyp.js On Oct 23, 6:01 am, buda <www...@pochta.ru> wrote: > IE6 is already innonexistence. Whether IE6 remains relevant depends a great deal on where you look and whom you're targeting. If you look at the figures on http://ie6countdown.com, you see that if you're targeting east asia, you'd be an idiot not to support IE6. Similarly, that 2.2% in the UK is a misleading figure, because although small in itself, it consists of very large government departments -- so if your site/application is targeted at those departments, you're still stuck with IE6 support. You get the idea. :-) > The rapid development of browser features they caught up and there are > fewer and fewer differences between them. A year later, they > practically do not remain. Where are you getting that information? There still remain significant and problematic differences between browsers from different vendors. Heck, IE8 (nearly 30% of the desktop market[1]) and below don't even support `addEventListener`, making Prototype's handling of that difference very important indeed. Yes, in a year I'd expect IE9 to be much higher on that list than it is currently because even Microsoft users are getting the idea of updating more often, but I suspect IE8 will still be above it. Separately, I think the premise that most of Prototype is about working around outdated browser differences is (respectfully) incorrect. Most of Prototype is around adding useful utility functionality. Some of it is about smoothing out differences (such as how opacity is specified in various browsers), but mostly it's about simplifying and expanding on what's common across browsers (for instance, the DOM navigation stuff). My two cents. :-) [1] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0 -- T.J. Crowder Independent Software Engineer tj / crowder software / com www / crowder software / com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
