Use modern technologies. Your customer base is tech savvy enough and should not be using old browsers and if they are then too bad.
2 cents -sean On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 5:49 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > A bit of a survey here.... > > A couple of features I'm looking at for current/future products would be > much easier to implement using a certain feature found only in relatively > new web browsers, aka, Chrome/Firefox/Edge updated within the last year. > > One specific browser feature I'm looking at is webassembly. Various tools > out there indicate that around 87% of the installed/active browsers on the > internet are recent enough for native support. Most of the browsers > gained support for this feature early to mid last year. With autoupdates > being the rule instead of the exception, anyone on a recent auto-updating > web browser should support this. I'm mostly concerned about 'the rest'. > > Support for the older browsers is possible, but it adds a level of > complexity (specifically a level of testing) which I would prefer not to do > if I could get away without it. > > To be clear: Almost all of the functionality of the upcoming products > won't require these functions. A specific example of something that might > require this is setting up the scripting functionality as I'm looking at > various technologies which would work best if I could run a chunk of > webassembly code in the browser as part of the code editor. However, other > than editing a script, the rest of the functionality would work fine. > > Thoughts? > > -- > *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* > Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=3577+Countryside+Road,+Helena,+MT+59602&entry=gmail&source=g> > forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> > <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> > >
