May 2014 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Also send system information when sending Active Installs pings
by vincent＠massol.net 05 May '14

05 May '14

Hi devs, I’d like to propose what I started writing in http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10274 : " The idea is to send the following pieces of information too: - Java version - OS name, arch and version - Database product name and version This will allow us to know more our use base and evaluate better the consequences of moving from one version of Java to another, what are the most used DBs on XWiki, what OS is the most used for XWiki, etc. This is useful to understand where to focus our support efforts for example. See also http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ActiveInstalls2 “ WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] Fwd: Programmatically loading text file content with unicode characters into XWiki
by ananthakrishna 03 May '14

03 May '14

Hello, I want to load content in large number of(millions) text files into XWiki pages.The text files contain Unicode Kannada characters(as well as some English characters). Is there a way to programmatically load these text file content into a XWiki page? Also will it work for millions of pages? I am new to XWiki.Can you please help me out. Thank you, -- Regards, Ananthakrishna

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[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Drop support for IE8 for 6.x
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 02 May '14

02 May '14

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

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