What about supporting what Microsoft support ? That means not IE9/10/11 only.
See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/08/07/stay-up-to-date-with-internet-explorer.aspx. IMO we should not do more that the own browser editor does. On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:40 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
