[aerogear-dev] Browser Support

[Summers Pittman]

On 08/20/2013 12:42 PM, Kris Borchers 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
>       o 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%?
>       o Opera => Current - 1
>   * Mobile
>       o Android Browser => Drop 3.2+
>           + Android folks, where are we on 2.3 usage? Still pretty high?
>
37%  of Google Play store users are running  < 4.0.  33% of Play Store 
users are running 2.3.3
>
>       o iOS Safari
>           + iOS folks, where are we on 4.3 usage? Can we drop?
>             Especially after release of iOS 7?
>       o Windows Phone IE
>           + Split to WP7.5 and WP8
>           + Keep 7.5 support or just 8
>           + WP8 would be IE10
>       o Mobile Chrome => Current - 1 (Same cycle as Desktop)
>       o 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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