Admin browser support policy

[Curtis Maloney]

This topic seems to appear frequently over the years, but I've yet to
see a clear decision.

Without a clear Browser Support Policy for admin, it can be very unclear
what cleanups, optimisations, and improvements can be made.

Collin Anderson suggested supporting IE11+ ("as that's the latest on
Windows 7 and there's not much 9-10 usage"), and I'd suggest also
considering the general Google approach:

Basically, it's "Current and Previous version", and considering IE as
separate from Edge (so IE 10/11, Edge current and previous).

Does this sound fair and reasonable?
Do we care about mobile browsers?
Does Safari deserve/require special casing?

Once we can resolve this, I want to start working on revising all the
JS. But I won't start that until I know what dross I have to still drag
along.

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Curtis

[Philip James]

I certainly care about mobile support. Being able to use even a limited version of Django admin on my phone would make my life significantly better.

PJJ

http://philipjohnjames.com

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[Tim Graham]

Django 1.11 dropped support for IE8 and below as those browsers are end of life.

It looks like we could now drop support for IE<11 based on this from Microsoft: "Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical supports and security updates. Internet Explorer 11 is the last version of Internet Explorer, and will continue to receive security updates, compatibility fixes, and technical support on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10." [0]

Yes, I would say we care about mobile browsers. Django 2.0 will likely add responsive CSS for the admin [1].

I'm not sure what "Does Safari deserve/require special casing?" means.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/end-of-ie-support
[1] https://github.com/django/django/pull/8610