[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

[Brian Stansberry]

On 2/24/14, 10:28 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
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> On 2/24/2014 11:10 AM, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:
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>> Am 24.02.2014 um 15:59 schrieb Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com>:
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>>> is an admin console for admins, not a user application made for your
>>> grandma who's using the same old computer and OS version you bought her
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>> Actually that is the real problem - it is for admins, that are not allowed to use
>> a modern browser because central IT invested X money in to certifying it with
>> whatever ridiculous internal stuff they came up with. They do not want to
>> re-certify with FFn+1 every 3 weeks because no one will pay them.
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> Obviously you don't want to require support for the latest and greatest
> every 3 weeks version, hence "relatively modern".  "Relatively modern"
> being, I don't know, browsers from 2010? or even 2012?  Wouldn't they
> have this same certification headache with Java 7 or Java 8?
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>> Grand ma on the opposite just needs to call their kids^w local tech support
>> to get an update installed.
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> No, grandma wouldn't even make the connection that she needed to update
> her browser.  She just wouldn't go to that website anymore.
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> FYI, I'm not trying to hijack this thread.  Just trying to get input.
>

Are you saying drop IE8 as well? IE 9 came out in March 2011.

Browser geeks: if gecko1_8 was dropped, what's the earliest Firefox we'd 
support?

I think Tomaz's proposal to drop IE 6 is a no-brainer.


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Brian Stansberry
Senior Principal Software Engineer
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