On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:08 AM, vincent(a)massol.net <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Hi Andre/everyone,
On 9 May 2014 at 07:35:54, Andreea Popescu
(andreea.popescu@xwiki.com(mailto:andreea.popescu@xwiki.com)) wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> I’m writing this e-mail because I want to propose supporting Internet
> Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11 on 6.x cycle.
>
>
> First of all, it’s known that Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9
> are still widely used by users, but many of them are currently choosing to
> update to IE10 and IE11. According to
netmarketshare.com (Browsers ->
> Desktop Share by Version) from a total of 100%, IE10 is used by 6.85% users
> and IE11 by 16.61% users. It’s true that IE10 is not as popular as the
> older versions (IE8 - 20.85% and IE9 - 8.89%), but its usage percentage is
> still significant.
>
>
> Second of all, both versions (IE10 and IE11) have some problems rendering
> our content sometimes, and you will see that below:
>
>
> IE10 known problems (unfixed) reported on JIRA:
>
> 1. XWIKI-10269: Table edit: pressing enter inserts new line in a
> different table cell
> 2. XWIKI-10299: The last annotation for a word
isn’t displayed on IE10
> 3. XWIKI-10300: If a text has multiple annotations after removing one of
> them the text looks like isn’t annotated on IE10
Minor. I don't think uses add multiple annotations on the same piece
of text (they can reply to the annotation/comment instead).
> 4. XWIKI-10192: The "Username" and
"Password" input fields don't have
> the same size
Minor too.
IE11 known problems (unfixed) reported on JIRA:
1. XWIKI-9933: When you press "Alt+C" in IE11 (cancel edition) in edit
wiki mode, the wiki session is canceled, but it also appears the "View
favourites, feeds and history" option
2. XWIKI-9787: Jump to a page using CTRL+G doesn’t work
3. XWIKI-10192: The "Username" and "Password" input fields don't
have
the same size
Last but not least, since December - January I’ve been testing IE10 and
IE11 (smoke tests or full tests) and their biggest problems were with
WYSIWYG (you can see that on: XWIKI-9698, XWIKI-10282 and XWIKI-10283).
So, what do you think?
I agree that we need to officially support IE10/11. We’ve been waiting too long for that
aready.
Actually we started doing this for XWiki 5.4.x and we fixed all issues we knew at that
time for IE10/11.
However we’ve had some regression in XWiki 6.0-SNAPSHOT because we upgraded the GWT
version we were using and that caused issues. I’ve seen that Marius has fixed some issue
already for the WYSIWYG: XWIKI-9698, XWIKI-10282 and XWIKI-10283.
So I’m +1 to start officially supporting IE10/11 and add them to
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy (which I’ve updated
with a netmarketshare report).
@Marius: you’re probably the one who’s done most of
the browser support so far. Is it going to be a problem to support IE8, 9, 10, 11 at once
(in term of workload)?
IE has become a lot more standards compliant in its recent versions so
supporting IE10 and IE11 should be less difficult for us that it was
to support IE6, 7 and 8. On the other hand, I think we should apply
the same strategy we have for the other browsers: support only the
latest version. See
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy .
So I think the XWiki *community* should support only IE11. Private
companies, like those listed on
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport
can of course offer support for older versions of IE, but that is
their business.
Thanks,
Marius
Thanks
-Vincent
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