As most of you probably know, we are working to create a new website for SuttaCentral based on Polymer Webcomponents and this is being tested on a variety of browsers.
I’m just interested to know what browsers and operating systems our users here are using to see the SuttaCentral main site (so not this forum). That’s just because I love statistics.
I know this list can never be complete so if you clicked OTHER on any of these two polls, can you please specify which one in a post? Thanks for your help!
Yes, I know. Maybe @Sujato can share the results here so we can compare the overall site with what our Discourse users are using and see if there is a difference.
Overall, if I add all Linux platforms together, Linux is used slightly more than Android, which I did not expect. It seems that most users of this forum watch the site on a laptop/desktop and Chrome is by far the most used browser. This is great because our new site is optimized for Chrome.
Waterfox on Artix GNU/linux, no evil System-D (nor D-bus on my particular system) - although my user-agent will report Firefox on Windows 8.1 lol. @tuvok, I’m impressed! Been thinking about the switch to Gentoo when I have the time.
Pardon my technological ignorance. I noticed that “Mac/Apple” and “iOS” were different options. I had thought that Mac/Apple was iOS? Am I tragically misinformed?
with all the new (and old) information about google spying on users I would have suggested to not be so supportive of this specific platform.
I will stay with Firefox until it is absolutely necessary to go in another direction. But I use Vivaldi occasionally so I can give you feedback about it if you need it.
I agree, we should absolutely support open standards.
To clarify what Vimala said, the SC Next site uses Web Components and Progressive Web App technologies, which allow us to do things that are otherwise impossible, like provide offline usage. Browser adoption of these technologies has been led by Chrome, but they have recently been adopted as official parts of the relevant specs, so they are being implemented by all the main browsers.
As is usual on the web today, most of the functionality will be available via polyfill until the other browsers complete their implementation, which I would anticipate in the next couple of years. In the meantime, certain things might be a little slower in Firefox or Edge, and some advanced capabilities won’t work until they implement the features (for example, installing the site as an app in iOS). But as far as using the site normally goes, it should be fine. We hope!
In the meantime, I use Chromium; Chrome, without the bad bits!
Not to split hairs; but the Chromium project, an open source (but not necessarily free/libre) project started by free and open source developers but now dominated by Google employees, has been caught sneaking in some nasty binary (non-free) blobs:
I have been a Mac user since 1985, but for the past year and a half, I’ve been using a Chromebook Pro more and more frequently, my MacBook less and less, and my iPad hardly at all. I love the keyboard on the Chromebook and find that the touchscreen and the stylus are much more useful than I expected them to be. Of course, the Chrome OS is more or less an extension of the Chrome browser, so if you’re developing with an awareness of Chrome’s dominance in the browser market, you’re developing for the Chromebook.
As an aside Discourse seems to chew through my battery-life on my iPhone (iOS Safari) faster than any other app … even Facebook
Probably not SC specific
users, unite!
with all the new (and old) information about google spying on users I would have suggested to not be so supportive of this specific platform.