Officially supported browsers
Occasionally we run into a spot where we need to decide what browsers we support for a certain issue. Lets make a standard list so we can stick to it. - What is the current de facto standard? - What are some good statistics? -- Neil Drumm http://delocalizedham.com/
Neil Drumm schreef:
Occasionally we run into a spot where we need to decide what browsers we support for a certain issue. Lets make a standard list so we can stick to it.
- What is the current de facto standard? - What are some good statistics?
For the Javascript, we currently test for all required API features (DOM APIs) and based on that, enabled or disable all JS functionality. That way, we don't care about particular browsers, only what they support. For CSS, the situation is quite similar. The only difference is that here there is a strong difference between the standard compliant browsers and Internet Explorer. We can use CSS2 where needed and provide IE workarounds if necessary. In practice, this means that IE6, FF1.0/1.5, Opera 8-9 and Safari 1.x/2.0 get the whole experience. Konqueror should work if it's the latest version. The general net usage is 85% IE, 10% Ffox, 3% Safari, 2% Opera or so. For Drupal.org, it is 50% Ffox/Moz, 30% IE, 20% other. IE5 and IE5.5 will experience some layout issues. IE5.0 will not do any Javascript. We can assume that for Firefox and Opera, the users have a high chance of running the latest version. The dinosaurs, IE4 and NS4, we no longer care about. Does that answer your question? ;) Steven Wittens
On 5/2/06, Steven Wittens <steven@acko.net> wrote: <snip> With some small tweaks and additions, I just made that a sub-page of System Requirements at http://drupal.org/node/61509 It seems worthwhile to document somewhere... Feel free to edit the page if you have the rights. You can also post comments to the page and I will incorporate/delete them in accordance with the comment guidelines http://drupal.org/node/14345 Regards, Greg -- Greg Knaddison | Growing Venture Solutions Denver, CO | http://growingventuresolutions.com Technology Solutions for Communities, Individuals, and Small Businesses
Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
On 5/2/06, Steven Wittens <steven@acko.net> wrote: <snip> With some small tweaks and additions, I just made that a sub-page of System Requirements at http://drupal.org/node/61509
It seems worthwhile to document somewhere...
Thats exactly what I was looking for. -- Neil Drumm http://delocalizedham.com/
This question comes up every now and then and there is a debate on market share, ...etc. Some will point to w3schools, others to other sites. The fact is: it all depends on the audience of a given site. It varies widely depending on that: For what's its worth, here are my April statistics for browsers (all browsers with less than 1% share are ignored) Quasi Techie site MS Internet Explorer 64 % (61% is MS IE 6.0) Firefox 22.4 % Unknown 5.7 % Safari 3 % Mozilla 1.5 % Opera 1.3 % Non techie niche site (in line with Steven's general web stats). MS Internet Explorer 82.2 % (79% is MS IE 6.0) Firefox 10.6 % Unknown 2.5 % Safari 1.4 % Mozilla 1 % Just look at the MS IE vs FF. 64:22 in one case, and 82:10 in the other. MS IE is mostly 6.0, so 5.x has very little market share.
Khalid B wrote:
This question comes up every now and then and there is a debate on market share, ...etc. Some will point to w3schools, others to other sites.
The fact is: it all depends on the audience of a given site. It varies widely depending on that:
For what's its worth, here are my April statistics for browsers (all browsers with less than 1% share are ignored)
Quasi Techie site MS Internet Explorer 64 % (61% is MS IE 6.0) Firefox 22.4 % Unknown 5.7 % Safari 3 % Mozilla 1.5 % Opera 1.3 %
Non techie niche site (in line with Steven's general web stats). MS Internet Explorer 82.2 % (79% is MS IE 6.0) Firefox 10.6 % Unknown 2.5 % Safari 1.4 % Mozilla 1 %
Just look at the MS IE vs FF. 64:22 in one case, and 82:10 in the other. MS IE is mostly 6.0, so 5.x has very little market share.
Here are the stats for drupal.org from April: Firefox 47.0 % IE 35.7 % Safari 4.1 % Mozilla 4.1 % Opera 3.0 % Unkown 2.2 % Konqueror 1.3 % Wget 0.5 % IE's share has been dropping from 42.4% in September, for May it is currently only at 30.x% Cheers, Gerhard
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Steven Wittens