[aerogear-dev] Browser Support

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:

> I would like to propose a couple of things around browser support and get
> feedback as to how people feel about them.
>
> First, I feel we need to finish our support matrix[1]. I would like to
> propose the following modifications:
>
>    - Desktop
>       - IE
>          - I would like to entertain the idea of going to only IE10
>          support in the near future. We don't have to do it now but according to
>          Global Stat Counter[2], IE9 is on a steady decline (~5% share) since it is
>          being auto-updated to IE10 (~10% share). What's a good share percentage
>          where we can say we should drop support? 2%? 1%? <1%?
>       - Opera => Current - 1
>    - Mobile
>       - Android Browser => Drop 3.2+
>          - Android folks, where are we on 2.3 usage? Still pretty high?
>       - iOS Safari
>          - iOS folks, where are we on 4.3 usage? Can we drop? Especially
>          after release of iOS 7?
>
>
See here :-)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155050/keynote-2013.ios.installed.base.png

And that is BEFORE iOS 7 :-)

That said, for the native bits, dropped already the support of 4.3 with our
1.1.0 release (see [1]). I'd say doing similar on the JS side of things
does make sense


[1]
http://aerogear-dev.1069024.n5.nabble.com/aerogear-dev-aerogear-ios-Dropping-support-for-iOS-4-x-td3224.html



>
>    - Windows Phone IE
>          - Split to WP7.5 and WP8
>          - Keep 7.5 support or just 8
>          - WP8 would be IE10
>       - Mobile Chrome => Current - 1 (Same cycle as Desktop)
>       - Mobile Firefox => Current - 1 (Believe it's same cycle as Desktop)
>
>
> Second, I would like to expand on an issue we are running into concerning
> the IE9 support. We have plans to implement multipart upload for Pipeline
> in the next AGJS release. The only issue is, IE9 does not support
> XMLHttpRequest2 which means the only way to do REST based file uploads is
> via an iframe hack which I will not introduce into our code. Until we drop
> IE9 support, I would like to suggest being able to mark APIs as unsupported
> in IE9 to keep moving forward with the rest of our modern browsers. Then,
> once IE9 support is dropped, those notes can be removed.
>
> Thoughts on all points much appreciated.
>
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