So, this dropping of IE11 needs to be discussed, so please disregard the [VOTE] part of the mail subject and provide feedback about this idea and the needs you have technically.
Thanks, Caty On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < [email protected]> wrote: > IE is the last browser we are supporting at a particular version, see > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy . > For all the other browsers, we are supporting just the latest release. > > We are supporting the latest version of Microsoft Edge since XWiki 9.9, > starting from 24/Oct/17. Microsoft Edge replaced Internet Explorer as the > default web browser since the release of Windows 10 (launched Jul 2015). > Internet Explorer 11 is maintained on Windows 10 for compatibility > purposes, but is deprecated in favor of Edge and is no longer actively > developed. > > We discussed dropping IE11 in the past Oct 6, 2017 (see > https://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/qsrkka6zfrmyxv3d), but the vote failed. > > Some updated statistics: > > -------------------------------------------------- > > XWiki.org's 1 year traffic (between Sep 30, 2016 - Sep 30, 2017) compared > to Oct 1, 2017 - May 31, 2018: > - Internet Explorer dropped from (5.84%) to (4.65%) > -- from this percentage, IE 11 usage has increased from (88.43%) to > (88.76%) > - Edge increased from (1.56%) to (1.84%). > > In terms of Worldwide market share for Desktops, for the past 12 months > (according to > http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/ ), we have Sep, > 2016 - Sep, 2017 compared to May 2017 - May 2018: > - Internet Explorer dropped from 8.21% to 6.97% > - Edge dropped from 4.3% to 4.15% > > In May 2018, Global Market Share Worldwide for All Platforms contains: > - Chrome 58.09% > - Safari 13.78% > - UC Browser 8.16% > - Firefox 5.27% > - Opera 3.68% > - Internet Explorer combined is at 3.08% (with IE 11 having 2.65%. IE11 in > August 2017 had 3.04%) > - Edge combined having 1.91% (Edge combined in August 2017 had 1.8%) > - etc. > > -------------------------------------------------- > > In terms of statistics, IE11 is more used than Microsoft Edge. The only > argument of dropping IE11 is that it's a browser that is deprecated for > about 3 years, and it's limiting the usage of newer specifications (like > CSS Flex, Grid, etc.) > > I'm curios about how this period of supporting both IE11 and Edge went, > and if you have other examples of things you wanted to use and are not > supported by IE11. > > Thanks, > Caty >
