Yes – can’t stress enough what Sean is saying here…. Customers need to keep up, the applications/services/software should not need to slow down because of a small number of customers who won’t keep current. Those same customers will be the one who call your technical support to complain that their online banking doesn’t work as well 😉
From: Sean Heskett Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:14 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Require Recent Web Browser? 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 forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com
