[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Drop support for IE8 for 6.x

Hi devs, This mail is about voting to drop support for IE8 in 6.x cycle. The issue is more complicated, since according to our 'Browser Support Strategy' [1] we are supporting IE8, IE9 and the latest versions of FF, Chrome (+ Safari5). 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) With the release of IE11 some companies also dropped their support for IE9, so we should also adjust our support strategy by supporting newer browsers (IE10, IE11) and dropping the support for old ones (IE8, IE9). According to Statcounter for the last 6 month period http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201309-201402-bar the most popular IE browsers are IE10 (8.48%) and IE8 (7.98%). While the market share is not neglectable there is something you need to consider: In 6.x we want to add a new skin: Flamingo. Ideally this skin should be responsive. In order to assure responsiveness we need media query support. IE8 doesn't has support for media query natively, we would need Respond.js [2] to enable it. While this solution exist, 6.x will be ready at the end of 2014 when I suspect the market share for IE8 will drop. Additional to not having media query support, there are other CSS3 properties and HTML5 elements that are not fully supported by IE8 (border-radius, box-shadow, transition, etc.). This is my +1 to drop support for IE8 in 6.x Thanks, Caty [1] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy [2] https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond