Document Supported Browsers

[clone1018]

This is required for PR#1707

[clone1018]

Total Gittip Traffic for November 1st to December 1st

IE Specific Traffic

[bruceadams]

Who do you expect to read this documentation? Any user running an old browser is never going to see this documentation (well, unless we give them a "please upgrade your browser" message).

I'm quite willing to have, for us developers, a sense of first class and second class browsers. (We've been treating mobile as second class for most of Gittip's life so far.) It must be possible to use Gittip from old and strange browsers.

[seanlinsley]

#1707 actually improves the main page's layout in IE 8, fixing:

[clone1018]

@bruceadams This would be a guideline for developers, users are welcome to browse the site using any program they please. Ideally, since Gittip uses HTML, all browsers should have the ability to show Gittip's content. But I really don't think we should spend our time developing IE7, or links2 (for example) specific functionality.

[seanlinsley]

@clone1018 to what extent do you want to document this? Let's say we've all decided on >= IE 9. What then?

[seanlinsley]

On the subject of an upgrade message, we could use #1643 if it's updated to let users manually close a notification.

[clone1018]

How about, "All vendor supported versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE."

[seanlinsley]

Sounds good to me. Now what about developer documentation and notifying people with old browsers?

[clone1018]

@seanlinsley "developer documentation"?

I think notifying people with old browsers is for another ticket at another time.

[seanlinsley]

@seanlinsley "developer documentation"?

So that's not what you had planned? From the title of this ticket, and the back-and-forth with @bruceadams, it certainly seems like you planned on adding documentation for this.

[clone1018]

Right, once we finalize on something me or someone would add it to the readme.

[clone1018]

It would fit nicely under "Testing"

[clone1018]

@bruceadams Thoughts?

[bruceadams]

@clone1018 sorry, didn't notice your prompt here. i'm fine with this, yes.

[dominic]

re: "All vendor supported versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE", does that put IE7 (and 6??) in the "still supported" category: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=Internet+Explorer&Filter=FilterNO

[seanlinsley]

We've been discussing this in the IRC channel: https://botbot.me/freenode/gittip/msg/8364203/

To summarize: we'd only want to fully support IE 9 and greater, though the landing page should be navigable in IE 8 at least. Apparently we haven't come to agreement yet.

[rummik]

I'm not really in favor of supporting anything older than IE8 -- I've done it in the past, and IE really made things tiresome. (I also feel like saying that I think we shouldn't support anything that doesn't properly support CORS, but I'm pretty sure that leaves out IE8)

[seanlinsley]

I'll just leave this here.

[galuszkak]

I will do that.

[galuszkak]

PR send. Please review.