On 20 November 2012 23:54, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think a best of both worlds would be preferable. I
haven't seen the
stats, but I'd assume market share of IE 10 will be quite low. Still it
would be silly to not strive to support it.
Well, until this month IE 10 wasn't released (just a developer
version; I wasn't counting these). Thus the "current and
immediately-previous versions" for IE would have been 9 and 8.
Supporting browsers before they're released is a nice-to-have and, as
you say, sensible to get ahead of the work, but it's not as crucial as
fixing "live" versions for millions of people.
How about any browser released
in the last n months whose browser family has more then x % market share
plus any individual browser version with more then m % market share for
some sensible figures n, x and m?
Interesting idea. Perhaps x = 5, m = 1 and n = 12; with these numbers
we'd get pretty much what I suggested, plus IE 7 and Opera 12. The
cost of supporting these (especially IE 7) would be heroic in some
areas, however - but that's what the "local policies" for different
features are for, after all.
J.
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