[katello-devel] Get rid of webfonts?

[Mike McCune]

I don't have hard numbers but the question you always have to ask when 
writing a webapp and considering your browser support policy is the cost of:

* development costs to ensure compatibility with various browser versions
  - code changes necessary to sure ensure everything works well across 
platforms
  - debugging tools and setup so your dev team can track down issues 
across various browsers

* Testing costs to ensure compatibility:
  - automated testing
  - manual testing

* Users and market share matrix
  - when you remove support for a specific browser are you effecting 
enough users that you are going to negatively effect your project and 
product

for us, I've heard from teammates that the time and effort required to 
support IE8 (and older) and FF 3.6 (and older) is high which makes me 
lean towards not supporting them.  Ideally we could come up with some 
sort of matrix with the above inputs to derive a more 'correct' answer.

without real numbers we have to go on a guess .. and if you had me make 
a guess right now I'd say:

* Firefox 17 (latest in EL6)
* Chrome 20+
* IE 9+

Mike

On 05/06/2013 11:24 AM, Eric D Helms wrote:
> Pretty sure IE8 support is expected. And even still, IE9 does not
> support TTF either.
>
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Miroslav Suchy <msuchy at redhat.com
> <mailto:msuchy at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 6.5.2013 13:22, Eric D Helms wrote:
>
>
>         - We support IE back to 8 and as the email said, the system
>         fonts work
>         "except for ie"
>
>
>     I thought that Mike argued for IE9 and since no one objected that it
>     is written in stone.
>
>     Mirek
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