Re: Drop old IE support?

I have no qualms about dropping support for IE 6 or 7 and agree that we should continue to support 8 on XP.

Anyone had a look at their Gallery (2 or 3) browser stats lately? What about browser version/adoption reports?

On Feb 25, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Shad Laws <shad-xpYdmXCiSuZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey gang,
> 
> Question 1: is it worth trying to maintain and test IE6 and IE7
> support?  My personal vote is no.  I'm doing my best to check IE8 and
> IE9 properly, but really don't want to attempt to fire up an IE6
> installation for testing.
> 
> Question 2: should we continue to support IE8?  My personal vote is
> yes.  It's the latest IE an XP user could use, and I doubt I'm the
> only one whose grandparents would be upset when they can't see photos
> with their IE8-powered XP machines :-).
> 
> Some background: as some of you may know, jQuery 2.0 is already in the
> works and officially drops old IE support.  They define "old IE" as
> anything pre-IE9.
> http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/15/jquery-1-9-final-jquery-2-0-beta-migrate-final-released/
> 
> I imagine in the not-too-distant future we'll be running jQuery 1.9
> and 2.0 simultaneously, as suggested in the blog post above.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Take care,
> Shad
> 
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