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As an additional note, Edge will be a chromium/webkit based browser within
the next 6 months (it already is in it's beta version), so I don't know
that I would suggest focusing on anything but that one targeted platform
these days. The browser wars I think, are officially over :)

-Jason Orman

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 1:46 PM Strategicon Department Heads <
deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:

> Message From: Jason DuVall  nekojin at gmail.com
> IE is not worth supporting at all. As you said, Microsoft stopped
> supporting it 6 years ago, leaving it an unsafe and buggy mess. It doesn't
> even follow Microsoft's own standards for web implementation.
>
> For similar reasons, Android Webview is not worth supporting - it was
> effectively (if not officially) EOL'ed, and Google has not supported it or
> had it included in new devices for months. For phones where they're able
> to, it was actively removed, and people were "forced" to use Chrome
> instead. It functionally no longer exists as anything but a "legacy"
> program.
>
> (And as a side note, why didn't you upgrade your Win7 PC to Win10 when
> Microsoft offered it for free?!?)
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:53 PM Strategicon Department Heads <
> deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:
>
>> Message From: Tanya Aldrich  taldrich at strategicon.net
>> Hi All,
>>
>> So, I decided to go review our site, now that we have 9 months of data,
>> covering 2 cons, I figure it’s a decent sample. Keep in mind, I’m looking
>> at this stuff from a developer mindset, not a marketing one. Here’s what I
>> found.
>>
>> Browsers
>> Over 80% of our users are using a webkit browser.
>> 53% Chrome [25% Windows, 16% Android, 7% Mac, 3% iOS]
>> 28% Safari [24% iOS, 4% Mac]
>>
>> Of the other less than 20%
>> 6% Firefox [4% Windows, 1% Mac]
>> 3% Edge - Windows
>> 2% IE - Windows
>> 2% Samsung Internet - Android
>> 2% Android Webview
>>
>> I have easy access to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. For browser issues,
>> that’s 87% of our users.
>> I can, in theory, fix OS related browser issues for 32% of our users with
>> my access to Apple devices.
>> I can, in theory, attempt to fix OS related browser issues of 31% of our
>> Windows users, but my windows is by no means new, Windows 7.
>> For the 2% IE users, it hasn’t been updated in 6 years. I’m only going to
>> be checking version 11, and If it’s not easily repeatable and not easily
>> fixable, it’s not getting fixed.
>>
>> Anyone using an OS other than Mac, iOS or Windows or a browser other that
>> Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or (groan) IE, you are going to have to help me
>> help you.
>>
>> Tanya
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