Re: [Wikitech-l] Features vs. Internet Explorers

2013-07-09 Thread Mark
On 7/6/13 12:44 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: If we must set a blanket policy for MediaWiki, I think it should be pretty general, something like: * *current* release of all major browsers with 'evergreen' releases (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) * a chosen *subset* of major versions of IE * a clear

Re: [Wikitech-l] Features vs. Internet Explorers

2013-07-06 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 07/05/2013 06:44 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: These are going to balance out differently depending on the wiki feature, on the browser features it depends on, on what the feature does/is used for, and the relative ease of user workarounds like updating or using another browser. Agreed. I think

Re: [Wikitech-l] Features vs. Internet Explorers

2013-07-05 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 06/13/2013 11:22 AM, Chris McMahon wrote: In recent times QA has expanded our automated cross-browser testing: we re-organized our builds, pointed the tests to beta labs wikis as well as test2wiki, and we've written a number of new tests. In the course of that a lot of our builds for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Features vs. Internet Explorers

2013-07-05 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Yes, IE is particularly an issue for this, since it often requires a fair amount of specific work. However, our browser compatibility requirements in general are somewhat in limbo. James Forrester marked the

[Wikitech-l] Features vs. Internet Explorers

2013-06-13 Thread Chris McMahon
In recent times QA has expanded our automated cross-browser testing: we re-organized our builds, pointed the tests to beta labs wikis as well as test2wiki, and we've written a number of new tests. In the course of that a lot of our builds for Internet Explorer versions began to fail. I've just