ok after discussing with Thomas we agreed that it would be better to agree to support ranges of versions for IE and then decide which minimal version we drop. Right now officially we support IE8/9 which is stupid since it means that officially we don’t support the latest IE version (11). So the new vote is: * Support all IE versions from the older version we support to the latest version (i.e. IE8-11 as today). Then we can have a separate VOTE to drop IE8 support (I’ll send it separately). Here’s my +1 Thanks -Vincent On 4 Sep 2014 at 16:34:48, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
+1 for IE9/10/11 +0 for IE8 (there is a lot of users but even Microsoft does not support it!)
2014-09-04 16:11 GMT+02:00 Thomas Mortagne :
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
What about supporting what Microsoft support ? That means not IE9/10/11 only.
Remove the "not" of course.
See
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/08/07/stay-up-to-date-with-internet-... .
IMO we should not do more that the own browser editor does.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:40 PM, [email protected]
wrote:
Reviving this thread since we need to decide and lots of committers haven’t voted yet!
I’ve updated http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy with recent market share.
Note that there are various other sources and they don’t seem to show similar data: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts_de_march%C3%A9_des_navigateurs_web - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
However I think they all show that if we wish to support 80% of users we have to support about the 10 top browsers used and AFAICS this includes: - IE8/9/10/11 - FF latest - Chrome latest - Safari latest
It seems market shared for IE8/9 are still high. However IE10 is less high (probably because those who upgraded to it quickly upgraded to IE11)?
So far we have the following votes: - Andrea: +1 to support IE10/11 - Vincent: +1 to support IE10/11 - Marius: +1 to support IE11, +0 to support IE8/9/10
Thanks -Vincent
On 10 Jun 2014 at 09:08:43, [email protected] ([email protected] (mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
Hi Andrea/all,
On 10 Jun 2014 at 08:46:45, Andreea Popescu ([email protected] (mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
Hello all,
Following the "Start supporting IE10 and IE11" thread I’d like to propose to vote if we will support IE10 and IE11.
FTR the thread in question is at http://markmail.org/message/zjlbcfkl5cqnrwfk
The most important reasons for supporting these versions are:
- 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.
Here’s my +1.
On the above-mentioned thread Marius had proposed to support only the latest version of each browser, which is basically what we’re doing except for IE. The rationale is that it takes time to support all browsers and the community can only do so much. Companies offering paid services on top of XWiki could support the other browser versions for their customers.
While I understand that, my POV is a bit different: I’d like that we support the top browsers/versions used by the majority of people, because I feel XWiki will be successful if the majority of people can use it without problems.
Looking at the graph at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy if we were to support at least the top 6 browser/versions we would cover 70% of the user base. For IE this means supporting IE8-11. Note that strangely IE8 is the top browser in market shares, way above most of the others… Not supporting it ATM would mean “loosing" 20%+ of users. If we have problems supporting, say the top 10 browsers, then we can drop to top 6, if that’s an issue, then to top 5, etc. ATM we’re supporting 5 browsers and with IE10-11, this would mean raising to 7 browsers. I propose that we try it with the additional 2 browsers (IE10-11) and see if it’s a burden for us or it’s manageable.
So there are 2 questions in here: - Starting the support for IE10-11: I’m +1 for that - Deciding if we want to support only one version for each browser or instead support the highest browsers in marketshare. I’m +1 for the marketshare approach.
Thanks -Vincent
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