{"id":1586,"date":"2015-08-14T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2017-07-20T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:29:20","slug":"browser-compatibility-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/2015\/08\/14\/browser-compatibility-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Browser compatibility during beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>This is a post by <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calumshepherd\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Calum Shepherd<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>, our Head of Digital Strategy.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When thinking\u00a0about our\u00a0beta\u00a0iteration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/\"><span class=\"s3\">www.mygov.scot<\/span><\/a>\u00a0six months ago,\u00a0we decided to firm up our understanding of which browsers we intended on supporting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Compatibility decisions were based upon our understanding of who we thought would be using the website and their current browser choice and version. We used data from our alpha and a vastly more mature data set from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/\"><span class=\"s2\">www.gov.uk<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 allowing us to get the browser usage spread we needed to make some initial assumptions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Compatibility decisions are split between the website and our publishing platform \u2013 as the intended audience is quite different. We know that people within Scottish Government will likely be running\u00a0versions of Internet Explorer and don\u2019t readily have access to mobile devices suitable for publishing.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Browser compatibility list\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Website<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Full compatibility (with stylistic variations) with the following desktop browsers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chrome<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Firefox<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Safari (OSX)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Opera<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">IE 8+<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Full compatibility with the following mobile devices:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Safari on iOS 5+<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Default browsers on Android 4.1+<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Blackberry 10<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Windows Phone<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Limited compatibility (content visible and site navigable) on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">XBox 360<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">XBox 1<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">PS3<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">PS4<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Limited compatibility (content visible and site navigable) on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">other current desktop browsers (e.g. Opera)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">other current mobile and tablet browsers<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">current smart TVs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Publishing platform<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Full compatibility with the following desktop browsers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chrome<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Firefox<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Safari (OSX)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">IE 9+<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>We\u2019ll be sharing updates on this, and much more on social, so follow the team via <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mygovscot\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>@mygovscot on Twitter<\/i><\/span><\/a><i> for more updates. Want to comment? Get in touch\u00a0below!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a post by Calum Shepherd, our Head of Digital Strategy. When thinking\u00a0about our\u00a0beta\u00a0iteration of www.mygov.scot\u00a0six months ago,\u00a0we decided to firm up our understanding of which browsers we intended on supporting. 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