https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65297
Bug ID: 65297
Summary: Remove $wgBrowserBlackList and associated EditPage
methods
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.23-git
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Page editing
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
This feature was added in 2004-2005 for the same reason as the Esperanto
conversion mentioned in bug 60677: "[...] when many browsers with really bad
Unicode support were still in use" (languages/classes/LanguageEo.php).
By default, the blacklist includes:
* Netscape 2-4 and IE for Mac, which are unsupported, dead browsers.
* Google Wireless Transcoder, which doesn't seem to allow editing (the text box
and "Save Changes" button are missing) and isn't currently detected either.
Yet Wikimedia's CommonSettings.php adds Lynx, which on many systems now does
support UTF-8.
It seems likely that the problem that this setting addresses is no more, and
thus the setting should be removed (or at least the EditPage::makeSafe() and
EditPage::unmakeSafe() methods added in r10313 / 10392e098349 to address bug
2676).
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