> If w3schools' statistics are at all accurate, there are about the same
> number of people using IE 6 as either IE 7 or 8
Stats like that are nice, but I'd be curious to see what kinds of
browser stats there are for other people running a (relatively) busy
site? "real" people, like on this list..
Here's a post from John's blog in which he touches the topic of a
general strategy for browser support:
http://ejohn.org/blog/the-browsers-of-2009/
He also briefly writes about it in his (latest?) book:
http://www.manning.com/resig/
Finally, John's (and thus jQuery's) testing strategy is to tes
On Jan 12, 1:24 pm, Nathan Klatt wrote:
> > IE 6 use is 3 times that of Safari (all versions) depending on whose
> > statistics you believe. Why not drop support for Safari while you're
> > at it? And Opera and Chrome?
>
> Because you don't have to do anything to support Safari or Chrome or
> Op
Thanks for sharing your opinions, RobG and Nathan.
Though, opinions aside, the question still remains; what is jQuery's
strategy for keeping/deprecating support for browsers such as IE6?
> IE 6 use is 3 times that of Safari (all versions) depending on whose
> statistics you believe. Why not drop support for Safari while you're
> at it? And Opera and Chrome?
Because you don't have to do anything to support Safari or Chrome or
Opera - they actually work. To stop supporting them you'
On Jan 11, 10:47 pm, mikewse wrote:
> What is jQuery's long-term strategy for browser support - cut off
> browsers after a certain number of years or when going below a certain
> market share?
>
> [I'm asking because of the current trend (among some webdevs and also
> library developers) advocat
You are echoing my own thoughts :-)
Still, I see "stop supporting IE6" discussions even for JS libraries,
like it is "doing the right thing" to help evolve the web. I can
understand the reasoning although I don't agree with it. So, I think
it would be good if core devs could speak up on their long
It would be really stupid (for a JS library) to cut off any browser
with market-share above 1%, especially IE6 which won't go below 1%
until maybe 2011.
You can be sure, they won't do that.
The big sites (Youtube, Facebook, ...) are doing a good job in asking
their visitors to upgrade, but IE6 is
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