Awesome, thank you Juliusz :D

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I updated
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility/Software_for_using_MediaWiki#Mobile_browsers
> and linked to it on Extension:MobileFrontend.
>
> Feel free to edit and improve it. I didn't make the compatibility table as
> specific as the desktop one because I don't think we have all that
> information (when we dropped/added support for specific browsers). I
> assumed that reading/navigation was supported since the first release
> (1.15, as it was stated previously) and that we decided which modern
> browsers to support around 1.22.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> That looks like a good place to me and I like that it's not a
>> mobile-specific page. We used to have a separate page documenting mobile
>> browser support way back in the day, but I think it's since been deleted.
>> It might be worthwhile to link to wherever this gets published from the
>> Extension:MobileFrontend page.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Where should I post this? Should I just edit
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Browser_support#Mobile_browsers directly?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Arthur Richards <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Juliusz, did this get posted to a wiki yet?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Interesting. And sad. Thanks for tracking that down.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/24/2014 04:34 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: https://github.com/bestiejs/platform.js/issues/29
>>>>>> "the new S4 stock browser is actually using a bastardized version of
>>>>>> Chrome Mobile, but locked at version 18.0.1025.308".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> they quote the ua as:  "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.2; en-au;
>>>>>> SAMSUNG GT-I9500 Build/JDQ39) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko)
>>>>>> Version/1.0 Chrome/18.0.1025.308 Mobie Safari/535.19"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This UA might easily be mistaken for the vanilla version of Chrome..
>>>>>> There might be more browsers like that. Thank you manufacterers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DJ
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Juliusz Gonera <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Brion Vibber wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just a quick note: Android 2.3 and Windows Phone 7.5 (IE 9) devices
>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>> no software upgrade path; we can only wait for them to fall out of
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> market as devices get replaced. [Well technically Android 2.3 users
>>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>> run Firefox, but getting people to switch browsers on mobile is
>>>>>>>> hard!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know, but I'm not too worried about IE9. Its usage is already
>>>>>>> pretty low.
>>>>>>> When it comes to Android 2.3 a few months ago I had an idea of
>>>>>>> showing
>>>>>>> banners to its users suggesting that they upgrade to Firefox. I'll
>>>>>>> push more
>>>>>>> for it so that we find some time to actually get it done. It should
>>>>>>> not be
>>>>>>> too difficult and I'd be curious to see if it improves Firefox
>>>>>>> metrics.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I'm also a little worried to see old versions of Chrome in there;
>>>>>>>> does
>>>>>>>> this mean there's a lot of people who aren't turning on updates on
>>>>>>>> their
>>>>>>>> phone and are using an old version that shipped with the phone? Or
>>>>>>>> is there
>>>>>>>> something else holding back updates on some devices? With Chrome
>>>>>>>> and Firefox
>>>>>>>> on fast release cycles, it can be a pain to support old bugs...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm also not sure where this comes from. I'd wait and see if it
>>>>>>> changes in
>>>>>>> the next few months. If it doesn't, we could investigate why Chrome
>>>>>>> Mobile
>>>>>>> 18 and not any other old version is that popular.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Juliusz
>>>>>>>
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>>
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