[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

Brian Stansberry brian.stansberry at redhat.com
Mon Feb 24 12:10:04 EST 2014


On 2/24/14, 11:04 AM, Harald Pehl wrote:
>
> Am 24.02.2014 um 17:43 schrieb Brian Stansberry
> <brian.stansberry at redhat.com <mailto:brian.stansberry at redhat.com>>:
>
>> On 2/24/14, 10:28 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/24/2014 11:10 AM, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Am 24.02.2014 um 15:59 schrieb Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com
>>>> <mailto:bburke at redhat.com>>:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>> Grand ma on the opposite just needs to call their kids^w local tech
>>>> support
>>>> to get an update installed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, grandma wouldn't even make the connection that she needed to update
>>> her browser.  She just wouldn't go to that website anymore.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>
> gecko1_8 is used for *all* Firefox version > 3.0. For FF, Chrome &
> Safari GWT does not distinguish between interim versions. Here's the
> full list of supported browsers (taken from the latest GWT sources):
> https://gwt.googlesource.com/gwt/+/master/user/src/com/google/gwt/useragent/UserAgent.gwt.xml
>

Thanks.

So the six browsers are ie6, ie8, ie9, ie10, gecko1_8 and safari. IE10 
was the one not on the original email.

>
>> I think Tomaz's proposal to drop IE 6 is a no-brainer.
>
> I take this as a "Yes, remove IE6 permutation from the WF version"
>

Yes.

> .: Harald
>
>>
>>
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