To clarify: "run on" does not mean "fully support". Products can and should have different grades of support. But this does not mean completely disregarding IE6 or 7.
In any case, jQuery should not be making that sort of decision. Unless supporting IE6/7 is imposing significant roadblocks to the further development of jQuery core, I don't see what benefit anyone gains from removing that support. -- dz On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:51 AM, David Zhou<da...@nodnod.net> wrote: >> jQuery and IE old : I am wondering why mainstream jQ supports IE6 >> actually? How many developers actually need and use that? Who and when >> will be developing an web app today , that will run on IE6 too ? 99% >> of web apps developed on jQ are new apps for new browsers. > > That's a pretty myopic view of the industry. If jQuery, today, didn't > support IE6, I doubt I'd be using it. > >> If I >> develop web app today, using jQ or not, I would certainly not promise >> it will run on IE6, or IE7. > > If my company couldn't promise that our web app or site runs on IE6 or > IE7, you can bet that the vast majority of clients would look > elsewhere. And that's likely true for many, many other > developers/companies as well. > >> Certainly there are large customers still >> using IE6 for their corporate intranets, but they can introduce FF or >> Chrome in parallel. > > That's a really naive way of thinking. I certainly would not be > willing to bank the success or usability of my application on the > willingness of a corporate IT dept to parallel install FF. > >> The number of developers actually developing today and supporting IE6 >> is very small. jQuery or not. In any case they should be easy to >> count. > > Care to provide some evidence? Anecdotally, my company -- and many > others that colleagues work at -- would immediately switch to another > framework if jQuery decided to drop IE6 and IE7 support in the near > future. > > -- dz > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
