Re: [aerogear-dev] Browser Support

I guess it helps to include the links!

[1] http://aerogear.org/docs/guides/AeroGearBrowserTargets/ [2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201207-201307

On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Kris Borchers < kris(a)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? > * > 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. > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev