Jeffrey Paul 6:11 pm on May 1, 2017
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Dev Chat Summary: April 26th (4.7.4 week 8)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from April 26th (Slack archive).

News & Updates

Target Browser Coverage

  • WordPress is officially ending support for Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10, starting with WordPress 4.8
  • @voldemortensen: When patches are backported to versions pre-4.8 should they be tested against older IE versions? Are we maintaining that sort of back compatback compat Backward compatibility - a desire to ensure that plugins and themes do not break under new releases - is a driving philosophy of WordPress. While it is a commonly accepted software development practice to break compatibility in major releases, WordPress strives to avoid this at all costs. Any backward incompatible change is carefully considered by the entire core development team and announced, with affected plugins often contacted. It should be noted that external libraries, such as jQuery, do have backward incompatible changes between major releases, which is often going to be a greater concern for developers. for this or once 4.8 ships we drop support for it everywhere?
    • Unlikely that anyone will test that support on backported branches
    • The “Everything else: Bugs fixed as reported.” rule from the handbook could be stretched and applied to those IE versions
    • Will continue down that path until an alternate approach for backports to versions pre-4.8 is confirmed more officially

Editor Team

  • aiming for prototype parity by the end of month
  • will gladly take any assistance on resolving issues and testing via their GitHub repo

Customize Team

  • Image widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. could use some Android browser testing
  • Video widget could also use browser testing
  • Audio widget is ready for more testing too
  • all of those are on the Core Media Widgets GitHub repo
  • all are also in the WordPress.org repo
  • Have done some browserstack testing, but real life device testing would be much appreciated
  • Existing browser test issue for the image widget and video widget
  • Gallery widget is up next to build, mockups exist on GitHub

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