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Government Service Design Manual
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Update browsers and devices page #602

Closed tombye closed 9 years ago

tombye commented 9 years ago

Changes are mainly updates to the body copy to bring it up to date but also include the removal of Safari 5 & 6 on IOS as their usage has dropped to be a good way out of the top 95%.

I'd be very interested in the opinions of @robinwhittleton, @bradwright, @dsingleton @fofr, @gemmaleigh & @quis on the changes.

Thanks to @bdewater for highlighting the copy problems in issue 600.

A quick note on IE7

IE7's usage hasn't changed significantly since @edds mentioned it in the last update so there's no good reason for dropping it from functional for now. This will be monitored over the next few months to make sure the reasoning still makes sense.

jabley commented 9 years ago

:shipit:

quis commented 9 years ago

For reference:

Device Latest version of Safari supported Discontinued Recommended in this PR
iPhone 3G 4 June 7, 2010 ✗
iPhone 3GS 6 September 12, 2012 ✗
iPhone 4 7 September 10, 2013 ✔
robinwhittleton commented 9 years ago

This all looks good. My only comment would be that while mobile phones are regularly upgraded, tablets are not. The iPad 2 enjoys support for even iOS9, but the iPad 1 topped out at iOS 5. It might be worth keeping iOS 5 in functional specifically for them (I’ve got no problem in dropping iOS 6 completely). What do the numbers for iPad 1 look like?

bdewater commented 9 years ago

Thanks Tom, looking good! Shouldn't IE8 be downgraded to 'functional' along with 7 because it has dropped below 95%? There's also the issue that Microsoft will stop supporting anything older than IE9 after January 12, 2016. Downgrading IE8 would be a nudge in the right direction for people to upgrade their browser :)

bradwright commented 9 years ago

IE8 is currently 2.4% on GOV.UK.

tombye commented 9 years ago

@robinwhittleton iOS for tablet is currently at 0.3% of all visits and has dropped by about 0.1% since June. It's also been outside of the 95% since the last updates.

Bearing in mind it's at the same level as Amazon's Silk browser (for Kindle fire) which isn't in the support matrix I'd say iOS 5 should stay out too, at least until the next round of updates.

robinwhittleton commented 9 years ago

OK, that’s good enough for me! I’m happy for this to be merged if no-one has anything else to add?