On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Brian Slesinsky <skybr...@google.com> wrote: > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:57:09 AM UTC+2, Brian Slesinsky wrote: >>> >>> Following up on discussion in: >>> https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/#/c/2900/ >>> >>> There's been some talk about dropping IE 6/7 and it's confused the >>> conversation a bit. I'd like to distinguish between what happens short term >>> and how things will look by our next stable release. I expect that by GWT >>> 2.6, IE6 and 7 support will be gone. People who use stable releases have >>> opted in for big-bang, everything changing all at once and they can do it on >>> whatever schedule is convenient to them, including not upgrading until >>> they're ready. >>> >>> Short-term for those of us at trunk, it's a whole lot easier if we take >>> it one step at a time. First add the new stuff, perhaps hiding it behind a >>> flag. Turn it on by default. Then remove the old stuff. If these land as >>> separate commits then we can verify that each one didn't break our customers >>> before moving on to the next. I realize it's more work than a single atomic >>> change, but it's a lot smoother. >>> >>> I'm fine with waiting on some patches until IE6/7 goes away entirely, but >>> it's also possible to move a few steps forward on some things without >>> waiting on a different patch. >>> >>> At the moment, I don't know anyone specifically working on removing >>> IE6/7, which should proceed in a similar way. We've agreed that it should be >>> done, but someone has to do it, and I'd expect it also to go one step at a >>> time. I think the first step is to make sure everyone knows how to enable or >>> disable the IE6/7 permutation (are any code changes necessary?), and the >>> next step is to change the default so it's off. >> >> >> Does Google still support IE6/7 on some apps? I thought you only supported >> IE9+ > > > Depends on the product. I see that Adwords is dropping IE8 soon: > > https://www.en.adwords-community.com/t5/Ad-Approvals-and-Advertising/Google-Ads-cease-support-for-Internet-Explorer-8/td-p/133766 > > Can't find it for Wallet but it says IE7+ for the API: > https://developers.google.com/commerce/wallet/digital/faq#faq-technical-02 > >> >> If you don't support IE6/7, and we choose to drop IE6/7 support in the >> next release, then 'master' could have a transition period where RPC simply >> wouldn't work in IE6/7 without removing the ie6 permutation. >> >> BTW, disabling the IE6/7 permutation is only a matter of <set-property >> name="user.agent" value="ie8,ie9,gecko1_8,safari,opera"/> right? > > > Perhaps. There was some talk about having a trivial permutation that just > shows an alert if your browser is unsupported. We never had that before, > though.
Isn't there gwt:onPropertyErrorFn already for that use-case? We need to document it though: https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=8135 -- Thomas Broyer /tɔ.ma.bʁwa.je/ -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
