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Hopefully it won't end up in a situation where a lot of apps bundle seriously outdated versions and any given system has a dozen old dlls strewn all over. Didn'

by 0x0 12y ago

Hopefully it won't end up in a situation where a lot of apps bundle seriously outdated versions and any given system has a dozen old dlls strewn all over. Didn't that kinda happen with bundled flash players - even Adobe shipped exploitable players for years in other products?

AaronFriel 12y ago
Hopefully they do what Firefox tried (and failed) to do: ship a stable, enterprise version and an advanced version. No locking to arbitrary versions, but able to say, support "IE11 and IE Latest" in your product. Hopefully they allow developers to opt into a 30-60 day preview window such that they can remain a bit ahead of their customers.
- robin_reala 12y ago
  and failed? Mozilla’s ESR releases are definitely a thing.
  - LaikaF 12y ago
    I'm using one right now. Pretty sure they back port security/bug fixes as I have to keep updating it.
    - robin_reala 12y ago
      They do. That’s the support in ESR.
    - JohnTHaller 12y ago
      The Firefox ESR branch is on the same release schedule as the Firefox 'Stable' branch. So, you get a scheduled release every 6 weeks. But ESR just gets the security fixes whereas Stable also gets the new features. When there's an out-of-band security update on Stable (a .1 release), ESR gets that, too. ESR is pegged to specific releases of Stable and operates in parallel for a few releases so there are two different ESRs... the older one and the newer one... so organizations can transition from one browser engine to the next over a couple month timespan and ensure corporate apps work on both. Oddly, some non-organization people want ESR because they think it's updated less often. It's not.
- yuhong 12y ago
  I would not suggest MS use App-V to do that though.
untog 12y ago
We're already there on Android. The only reason we aren't there with Apple is because they release so infrequently.
- stevejohnson 12y ago
  The new WKWebView seems to solve this problem. It's bundled with the WebKit project, not iOS or OS X.

by 0x0 12y ago

AaronFriel 12y ago

Hopefully they do what Firefox tried (and failed) to do: ship a stable, enterprise version and an advanced version. No locking to arbitrary versions, but able to say, support "IE11 and IE Latest" in your product. Hopefully they allow developers to opt into a 30-60 day preview window such that they can remain a bit ahead of their customers.

robin_reala 12y ago
and failed? Mozilla’s ESR releases are definitely a thing.
- LaikaF 12y ago
  I'm using one right now. Pretty sure they back port security/bug fixes as I have to keep updating it.
  - robin_reala 12y ago
    They do. That’s the support in ESR.
  - JohnTHaller 12y ago
    The Firefox ESR branch is on the same release schedule as the Firefox 'Stable' branch. So, you get a scheduled release every 6 weeks. But ESR just gets the security fixes whereas Stable also gets the new features. When there's an out-of-band security update on Stable (a .1 release), ESR gets that, too. ESR is pegged to specific releases of Stable and operates in parallel for a few releases so there are two different ESRs... the older one and the newer one... so organizations can transition from one browser engine to the next over a couple month timespan and ensure corporate apps work on both. Oddly, some non-organization people want ESR because they think it's updated less often. It's not.
yuhong 12y ago
I would not suggest MS use App-V to do that though.

untog 12y ago

We're already there on Android. The only reason we aren't there with Apple is because they release so infrequently.

stevejohnson 12y ago
The new WKWebView seems to solve this problem. It's bundled with the WebKit project, not iOS or OS X.