On Tuesday 18 August 2015 14:29:15 Marc Tamlyn wrote: > I don't know about schedule, but caniuse reports IE8 browser usage at 1.5%, > more than IE9 or IE10. > > There's an argument we shouldn't be "enabling" people still using XP who > are stuck on IE8, and this is a decreasing problem, but I don't think we > can tie ourselves to Microsoft's support dates. >
Sure we can, in the same sense that we "tie ourselves" to the support dates of PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle. 1.9 is the release following an LTS -- the perfect time for changes such as JQuery 2 and dropping support for old browsers. If developers need to support the legacy IE8, they can use Django 1.8. The suggestion to add a notice for IE8 users seems reasonable to me, but I don't think we should hold back progress just to keep the admin usable on it. Shai.
