On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > What about supporting what Microsoft support ? That means not IE9/10/11 only.
Remove the "not" of course. > > 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 -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
