#366 - Drop legacy support

By Chris Graham
Added 29th Dec 2011, 10:56 AM
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Identifier	#366
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Drop legacy support
Status	Completed
Tags	Risk: Deprecates functionality (custom)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	core
Description	Drop lots of legacy support... Anything less than MySQL 5.1 Anything less than IE8 (but no promise of the coolest UI features on anything less than the latest generation of browsers) Anything less than PHP 5.2
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Additional information	Update our coding guidelines, our requirements (on website and docs), tidy up CSS and JS to remove hacks (e.g. setOpacity should not be needed, or the PNG hack, or re-definition of file_get_contents).
Funded?	No

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By Guest, By Guest, posted 27th Jan 2012, 11:13 AM

Oh Yes!
Drop the dead weight of old technologies.
Right now, the world is changing so fast making the costs of keeping with the old ones prohibitive. IMO developers and admins of modern CMS must make a choice between pleasing all of the potential users or moving forward with exciting innovations supported by modern browsers to attract knowledgeable members and keep websites on the edge of what's invigorating.

By Guest, By Guest, posted 17th Apr 2012, 6:16 PM

I completely agree with Jean. Even lag-about Microsoft is finally seeing to it that their browser is brought up to modern technologies. I want to see Composr built for the future, not for the past.

By Guest, By Guest, posted 23rd Apr 2012, 8:45 PM

What about support for older versions of Firefox,dev versions of google chrome,etc....?Using this portable version of Google Chrome:16.0.896.0 (Developer Build 103424 Windows)

By Guest posted 24th Apr 2012, 5:51 AM

The policy has always been to only support the latest versions of browsers other than IE. This is because IE is the only one that does not auto-update, and most other browsers are installed by people by choice (so they know how to keep up to date).

By Guest, By Guest, posted 30th Apr 2012, 5:26 PM

I haven't updated firefox in ages due to the fact that my pc is badly messed up and newer versions have graphical acceleration which my onboard graphics card won't be able to handle.I still use firefox v3.6.16.

I have had to disable a lot of the graphical wizardry just to get my pc to start-up at all. :(

By Guest, By Guest, posted 30th Apr 2012, 6:58 PM

Unfortunately, time moves on and, so too, must Composr.

By Guest, By Guest, posted 12th May 2012, 6:17 PM

Thanks for your sponsorship, Jean. Just 5 more credits to go till we help Chris move Composr's foundation to a more modern base.

By Guest posted 13th May 2012, 12:09 AM

I have implemented the front-end part of this with the sponsorships here, and put the server-side stuff into another issue. That stuff is less interesting anyway, and easier for us to sort out later too.

#366 - Drop legacy support

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