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#1 2009-04-01 13:49:49
- Felix Riesterer
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No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
Since TinyMCE is widely used in many web applications, Moxiecode sees the need to use its market position to support the notion of upgrading to current versions of today's browsers. This means that the support for IE6 and IE7, Opera 8 and Safari 3 is coming to an end as of January 2010.
This decision has been made in order to dramatically reduce testing and bug fixing efforts as well as time and money. All webworkers are encouraged to educate their users accordingly and make them use the latest available browser version.
Further information will be published during the next days on Moxiecode's TinyMCE project page as well as Moxiecode's blog.
Appearently some users are dumb enough to miss that this was a joke so I added a notice about it.
Last edited by spocke (2009-04-15 21:28:34)
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#2 2009-04-01 14:23:35
- Jostein
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Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
I hope this is NOT a april fools joke! :-)
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#3 2009-04-01 16:37:11
- Denitz
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Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
Deprecate IE8, also reduce testing and bug fixing efforts 
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#4 2009-04-01 22:35:25
Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
That sounds like a good timetable for IE6, but not for IE7. I think phasing out support for IE7 in less than one year is unnecessary and NOT GOOD.
IE7, like every single web browser on the market, has its share of bugs, but it has nowhere near the number of bugs that IE6 has. It also supports a good amount of the CSS 2.1 spec.
I can tell you that there is no way in the world that I would cutoff my IE7 users Jan 2010, so I guess I will stop upgrading at that point.
It's hard enough to get people off of IE6, but to force them onto IE8 before it has a chance to mature would create a rift between ivory tower developers and real users. Or do you plan on telling users that they are forced to go to Firefox?
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#5 2009-04-02 07:08:07
- Felix Riesterer
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Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
Jostein wrote:
I hope this is NOT a april fools joke! :-)
Oh, but yes - it was exactly that.
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#7 2009-04-02 14:39:37
- justinm
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Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
Felix Riesterer wrote:
Jostein wrote:
I hope this is NOT a april fools joke! :-)
Oh, but yes - it was exactly that.
I feel sad now 
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#8 2009-04-02 16:40:39
Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
justinm wrote:
Felix Riesterer wrote:
Jostein wrote:
I hope this is NOT a april fools joke! :-)
Oh, but yes - it was exactly that.
I feel sad now
just do it
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#10 2009-04-02 21:50:36
- Felix Riesterer
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Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
speednet wrote:
Oh. I forgot to laugh.
So you didn't find that funny... Well, the subject itself is anything but hilarious - I must agree with you there.
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#11 2009-04-09 21:27:22
- justinm
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Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
Just to clarify:
This was just an April Fools Joke correct?
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#12 2009-04-10 08:18:55
- Felix Riesterer
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Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
Felix Riesterer wrote:
Jostein wrote:
I hope this is NOT a april fools joke! :-)
Oh, but yes - it was exactly that.
What didn't you understand?
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#13 2009-04-15 19:08:11
- mrlami
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Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
I think dropping support for old browsers if very reasonable.
There can be a new version that supports new browsers that can be even leaner and meaner. Those who want to support older browsers can just keep using the old version.
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#14 2009-04-16 09:04:04
Re: No more supporting older browsers starting 2010 [April Fools' Joke]
mrlami wrote:
I think dropping support for old browsers if very reasonable.
There can be a new version that supports new browsers that can be even leaner and meaner. Those who want to support older browsers can just keep using the old version.
very good idea, please make it real and not a joke
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