On 12 Mar 2014 at 08:03:48, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
(vali...@gmail.com(mailto:vali...@gmail.com)) wrote:
> Hi Jeremie,
>
> What version of XWiki are you using? Do you plan to upgrade to 6.x? 6.x
> timeframe is by the end of the year (Dec 2014). Do you think you will still
> be using IE8 next year (I don't know either how IT departments schedule the
> upgrades)?
Note that this not fully true. I expect people to be able to use 6.x versions
well before the end of the cycle (actually starting with 6.0!). So if we drop
support of IE8 in 6.0 then people won’t be able to use it and 6.0 is for April
so it’s definitely not in 1 year time…
Thanks
-Vincent
> Thanks,
> Caty
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET <
> jeremie.bousq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Well, not everyone is that lucky :)
> > Currently as you said it's an Enterprise wiki, and some enterprises do not
> > necessarily shine with being up-to-date. Currently in mine our official
> > browser is still IE8. And most of our customers also stick to IE8. In this
> > kind of context there is no solution, except praying that your IT will
> > schedule some upgrade not too far from now.
> > Not saying this is representative of the majority - I have no idea. I hope
> > not.
> >
> > 4 years seem quite old, but in my opinion it's quite sad to see that many
> > web apps have to drop support for so recent browsers versions, due to
> > maintenance costs (though completely understandable). We could have
> > imagined that a responsive js framework could gracefully manage when
> > browser is not responsive (do you remember, when web sites could imagine
> > that you didn't want to activate javascript and still "work" ? :) ). If the
> > intention of these frameworks is to reach everyone everywhere from every
> > device, then it would seem logical to manage every browser ;-) But I must
> > say I'm not sure of what it means, or amount of work that would be needed.
> >
> > BR,
> > Jeremie
> >
> > PS: my own computer is more than 4 years old :)
> >
> >
> >
> > 2014-03-11 20:03 GMT+01:00 Leonardo Kodato :
> >
> > > I think if even google dropped support to IE8(in their apps), why would
> > you
> > > maintain it?
> > > Besides, no one wants to make thousands of hacks just to support an old
> > > browser.
> > > And Xwiki is not just a wiki. Is a 2.0 Enterprise Wiki. IE8 doesn't sound
> > > well with 2.0 hahaha.
> > >
> > > Btw, 4 years is a lot of time. Who has a 4 year computer today?
> > > You lost some old browser users, but you win some android, iPad and
> > Iphone
> > > users.
> > >
> > > That's is what I think as a user and a html developer.
> > >
> > > Thank you =).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2014-03-11 11:35 GMT-03:00 Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) > > >:
> > >
> > > > The current supported browser list is available here
> > > > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Caty
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
> > > > vali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > >
> > > > > For the 6.x cycle (
> > > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/WebHome)
> > > > we plan to develop a new skin Flamingo (
> > > > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/Skin4x ).
> > > > > One of the advantages of this skin is that is **responsive**.
> > Currently
> > > > > IE8 doesn't natively support this functionality.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am wondering how many of you are using this browser and how
> > difficult
> > > > > would be upgrade to a newer version of IE (IE10, IE11).
> > > > >
> > > > > IE8 was released in March 2009 (4 years ago)
> > > > > IE9 - March 2011 (2 years ago)
> > > > > IE10 - Sept 2012 (17 months ago)
> > > > > IE11 - Oct 2013 (4 month ago)
> > > > >
> > > > > Let me know of any other problems that could prevent us from dropping
> > > the
> > > > > IE8 support.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Caty
> > > > >
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