Package com.smartgwt.client.docs

Interface BrowserSupport

public interface BrowserSupport

Supported Browsers

When considering which browser versions are supported, developers should consider which browser versions they wish to support within their application. Generally this will be a subset of what the framework supports, and should be decided based on the needs of your customers (typically corporate policies on browser usage for intranet applications, or general browser usage for customer facing applications).

The Smart GWT framework supports all major browsers, and will always support the current versions at release-time.

The full list of Smart GWT browser support (at the time of the initial 14.1d release) is listed below. Note that support for some framework features may be implemented using different native approaches - or in rare cases, may be unavailable - in some older browser versions. Such cases are covered in documentation where they occur. For example, see the skinning discussion about CSS3 mode.

At the application level, we'd typically recommend advertising support for the latest versions of Chrome, Safari and Firefox, the most recent Firefox ESR release and the most common (and most recent) versions of Internet Explorer.

Support for new browser versions introduced after Smart GWT release

When new browser versions are released we will generally determine whether any issues are introduced by the new version, and update the most recent released Smart GWT version to add support for these new browsers if changes are necessary. These changes will be made available in nightly patch builds.

Older branches of Smart GWT may also be updated to support new browser versions. This will be considered on a case-by-case basis, depending on the effort required to work around any newly introduced browser bugs on these older branches.

Unsupported browser handling

Every distributed Smart GWT skin contains an "Unsupported Browser" page. This is an optional placeholder for an application to state its browser support policies.

The following browser versions were supported as of the original 14.1d release:

Browser/Version Operating System(s)
Internet Explorer 6.0-11.x Windows
Edge 20.10240.16384.0+, 86.0.622.63+ Windows/MacOS/iOS/Android
Firefox 4.x-82.x Windows/MacOS/Linux
Safari 5.0-14.x MacOS/Windows
Chrome 10.x-88.x Windows/MacOS/Linux/ChromeOS
Opera 11.x-72.x Windows/MacOS
Safari (mobile) iOS 10+
Android browser Android 4.4+
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