Reviving this thread since we need to decide and lots of committers haven’t voted yet!
I’ve updated http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy with recent market share. Note that there are various other sources and they don’t seem to show similar data: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts_de_march%C3%A9_des_navigateurs_web - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php However I think they all show that if we wish to support 80% of users we have to support about the 10 top browsers used and AFAICS this includes: - IE8/9/10/11 - FF latest - Chrome latest - Safari latest It seems market shared for IE8/9 are still high. However IE10 is less high (probably because those who upgraded to it quickly upgraded to IE11)? So far we have the following votes: - Andrea: +1 to support IE10/11 - Vincent: +1 to support IE10/11 - Marius: +1 to support IE11, +0 to support IE8/9/10 Thanks -Vincent On 10 Jun 2014 at 09:08:43, [email protected] ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > Hi Andrea/all, > > On 10 Jun 2014 at 08:46:45, Andreea Popescu > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > Following the "Start supporting IE10 and IE11" thread I’d like to propose > > to vote if we will support IE10 and IE11. > > FTR the thread in question is at http://markmail.org/message/zjlbcfkl5cqnrwfk > > > > The most important reasons for supporting these versions are: > > > > - Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 are still widely used by > > users, but many of them are currently choosing to update to IE10 and IE11. > > - according to netmarketshare.com (Browsers -> Desktop Share by Version) > > from a total of 100%, IE10 is used by 6.85% users and IE11 by 16.61% users. > > It’s true that IE10 is not as popular as the older versions (IE8 - 20.85% > > and IE9 - 8.89%), but its usage percentage is still significant. > > > > Here’s my +1. > > On the above-mentioned thread Marius had proposed to support only the latest > version of each browser, which is basically what we’re doing except for IE. > The rationale is that it takes time to support all browsers and the community > can only do so much. Companies offering paid services on top of XWiki could > support the other browser versions for their customers. > > While I understand that, my POV is a bit different: I’d like that we support > the top browsers/versions used by the majority of people, because I feel > XWiki will be successful if the majority of people can use it without > problems. > > Looking at the graph at > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy if we > were to support at least the top 6 browser/versions we would cover 70% of the > user base. For IE this means supporting IE8-11. Note that strangely IE8 is > the top browser in market shares, way above most of the others… Not > supporting it ATM would mean “loosing" 20%+ of users. If we have problems > supporting, say the top 10 browsers, then we can drop to top 6, if that’s an > issue, then to top 5, etc. ATM we’re supporting 5 browsers and with IE10-11, > this would mean raising to 7 browsers. I propose that we try it with the > additional 2 browsers (IE10-11) and see if it’s a burden for us or it’s > manageable. > > So there are 2 questions in here: > - Starting the support for IE10-11: I’m +1 for that > - Deciding if we want to support only one version for each browser or instead > support the highest browsers in marketshare. I’m +1 for the marketshare > approach. > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
