Re: Drop old IE support?

I see no reason to retain support for IE6 or 7 either, but I know that
at least in my case, the majority of my visitors are family members,
many of whom are not particularly computer savvy.

The themedispatcher contrib module
(http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Modules:themedispatcher)
also provides an easy way to serve a custom (limited) theme if the
default switches to something that requires IE8 or higher.

I've written a few modules, but I'm simply horrible with graphic
design; I can't design even a basic fallback theme, but I think if we
had one, it would make the switch a genuine no-brainer. Without it,
I'm a bit concerned about some of my viewers (or as concerned as I can
be when sharing my thoughts with people who work for free...)

-- Mike

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Chad Kieffer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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