Comments on: Graded Browser Support Update: Q1 2010

By: Eric Miraglia

Eric Miraglia — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:54:35 +0000

Apologies to everyone for the delay:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/11/03/gbs-update-2010q4/

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Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:11:34 +0000

[...] update implements the guidance we provided in Q1 2010. Of interest in this [...]

By: Soren

Soren — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:12:46 +0000

Any news on when we will see an update?

By: Chrome

Chrome — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:44:08 +0000

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/

Chrome 9.0 trunk builds now available for testing.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:19:20 +0000

I think the C-grade list is correct; it’s saying to withhold CSS/JavaScript from Safari 1 and 2, but not from 3. Version 3 is no longer A-grade but you shouldn’t withhold the CSS and JavaScript from Safari 3 users as it is likely to still render as expected.

By: bm36

bm36 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:57:47 +0000

A quibble about the C-grade list…
The ‘less than’ symbol (<) was used to indicate versions previous to those on the A-grade list, as in "Safari < 3". Given that Safari 4 is the A-grade, the 'less than or equal to' symbol (≤) would seem to me more appropriate, as this would logically include Safari 3.

By: Eric Miraglia

Eric Miraglia — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:18:23 +0000

@Tyler — Fair criticism — I apologize for the delay.

By: Tyler Rasmussen

Tyler Rasmussen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:28:02 +0000

What I don’t understand (though I do, don’t get me wrong, just hate it like everyone else)…why is IE 6.0 an A-grade browser? Specifically, the definition of A-grade browser includes modern (with the word “and” which has clear meanings in a coder’s mind), of which IE 6 (and arguably 7 and 8) is most definitely not. IE6 should be downgraded to a new category of “B-Grade” : crappy browsers that are unfortunately very popular and constitute a statistically significant number of internet users. I would love to make it C-Grade, but the definition of C-Grade, due to IE6 popularity, does not fit either.

@Eric Miraglia – “2 weeks out” becomes 3.5 weeks. Will we ever see an update?

By: David Owens

David Owens — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:08:09 +0000

The C-Grade list suggests we should think about hiding CSS and JavaScript from older versions of FF, Opera and Safari. Does anybody have suggestions on how to do that?

By: Eric Miraglia

Eric Miraglia — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:44:37 +0000

@Test — Two things — Yes, we’ve been slow getting the current update out; my apologies for that. And the rapid iteration of Chrome doesn’t fit well with a quarterly update system. We need to give better clarity about how the recommended testing surface should be modified when new Chrome versions are released. We’ll do that in the coming update, which is probably two weeks out. -Eric