https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41147
James Forrester <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|Unprioritized |Low Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Summary|Loosen Firefox version |VisualEditor: Support forks |requirement |of Firefox in the browser | |whitelist Severity|normal |enhancement --- Comment #1 from James Forrester <[email protected]> 2012-10-18 17:10:22 UTC --- Though I understand the wish here, I'm afraid we in the core team have got our work cut out for us just supporting the latest, core versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE. We've already spent a good deal of time looking at compatibility with older versions of these four, with Opera, and other browsers or forks of these browsers (like Iceweasel, which from our testing is not just a re-badge of Firefox, but works differently in unexpected ways). It's not a case of just adding browses to the whitelist and assuming all will be fine. Our current browser support policy [0] is still in draft, but given the huge variance we're finding between browsers on their JavaScript models, how they react to key-press events, and similar issues that are key to making VisualEditor work. That's quite apart from the browsers that claim to support key technologies but don't (like Android native browser before 3.0) and those that don't even reach that far (like Opera Mini). It's very important to us that we don't give people false expectations of the VisualEditor working for them only to break somewhere down the line because their browser can't or won't follow what limited standards there are, or that appear to work only to break wiki content terribly when people save their changes. We would of course be delighted to accept git pushes that would fix the compatibility issues with Iceweasel and other more minor browsers, though that will be quite a lot of work in some cases. Sorry that we can't give the support you want here. [0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/2012-13_Q1_forward-look#Browser_matrix -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
