Windows XP support

[Tom Burns]

My companies customers are k-12 schools.  Many have VERY old computers -- windows xp sp1 & sp2.  Is firefox 3.6 supported by angularjs?  How about firefox 4?  None of the documentation I have found mentions specific versions of firefox.  

[alex mathias]

Tom,

Just checked the Firefox site here:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-some-versions-windows-xp

If you can have the schools upgrade to the latest browser, the latest Firefox can run on Windows XP with SP3 (and perhaps SP2).  What was more interesting is that if you can't move to SP3, Firefox then refers you to the Opera browser site.  And it seems that Opera can be run on a base XP system:

http://www.opera.com/download/requirements/

And from my experience, Opera has a lighter "footprint" than Firefox, but should still be able to handle Angular.

Alex

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Tom Burns <to...@schoolloop.com> wrote:

My companies customers are k-12 schools.  Many have VERY old computers -- windows xp sp1 & sp2.  Is firefox 3.6 supported by angularjs?  How about firefox 4?  None of the documentation I have found mentions specific versions of firefox.  

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[Michael Bielski]

IE8 support is spotty at times, and lower than that I think is just plain not supported. I know that Chrome runs on XP (I don't remember if/when support was dropped) and that Firefox does as well (same words about dropping support) but I am pretty sure that those ancient versions of FF you mentioned are not HTML5 compliant.

I understand your frustration. My wife is a school teacher and is frustrated on a daily basis at the IT crap that she finds. Computers are not like buildings (buy it once and it lasts forever if you take care of it) yet that is the way they are treated.

TLDR: If you can't run an HTML5 compatible browser your life with Angular will be extremely difficult.