Ditto this, as expected... as in doesnt do something ot shouldnt On Sat, Mar 17, 2018, 10:58 AM Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As I see it, the only time it might be a problem, is if I'm using a field > laptop that lives in the truck and doesn't get updated very often... but as > long as the basic functions work with old browsers, it really shouldn't be > a big deal. > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> > wrote: > >> Don't worry about the 5-10% of people running old browsers. It's easy to >> tell customers to use a modern browser to gain full functionality. It's >> easy and free to upgrade browsers. >> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:49 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> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Darin Steffl >> Minnesota WiFi >> www.mnwifi.com >> 507-634-WiFi >> <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> Like us on Facebook >> <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> >> > >
