[aerogear-dev] Browser Support

[Rodney Russ]

Hey Kris, 

Have you looked at this? 

https://docspace.corp.redhat.com/docs/DOC-71217 

-Rodney 

----- Original Message -----

> 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 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?
> 
> > *
> 
> > 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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