Browser support

Current (3.x) (as of 11/2014)

• IE 8+ (lots of WinXP clients out there still, even past April 2014 probably)
• Firefox 31+ ("Extended Support Release")
• Chrome 37+ (version of chromium in Debian 7)
• Safari 5+
• Opera (12+?)

Future (4.x)

• IE... 8+ or 11+ ? leaning toward 8+ now
  • argument for 8+: still the most popular browser in 2014 (aka lots of WinXP clients out there still). not anywhere near the pain to support IE6 was.
  • argument for 11+ : folks still on XP after its EOL can use Firefox or Chrome, IE 10/11 are now available on Win 7
  • eventually we'll go 11+ anyway, data points on the timeframe:
    • chrome on xp support ends april 2015
    • windows security essentials stops being supported on XP in july 2015
  • probably 8/11+ but not things in between (9 is only on vista and server 2008, 10 is only on server 2012, MS dropped support for older browsers on a platform)
• Firefox 31+ (current/latest ESR)
• Chrome 41+
• Safari 6+? (latest running on the still-used OSX/iOS versions)
• Opera latest (still supported, but v15+ uses the same engine as Chrome, so not separately tested)