https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23932
--- Comment #7 from S. McCandlish <smccandl...@gmail.com> 2010-07-24 15:35:49 UTC --- When I reported elsewhere tthat using angle-bracketed material in hese bugzilla messages makes them unreadable in some e-mail systems, you replied: >From Comment #43 on Bug #671 from Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikib...@gmail.com> 2010-07-22 17:24:10 UTC (In reply to comment #41): > If your mail client touches angle brackets in plaintext e-mails, it is > absolutely and completely broken and you need to tell it to stop. yet --- Comment #4 here from Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikib...@gmail.com> 2010-07-22 15:52:51 UTC --- > ... we only kowtow to [obsolete versions of MSIE] until they're not used by > a significant number of people. These are contradictory stances. In the case I reported, the GMail app built into the Android operating system, for one, "eats" material in angle brackets. It is certainly "used by a significant number of people"; the entire initial production run of the Droid X sold out within a day or two, just like every Droid phone before it. If your "fix the broken application; we will not adapt" attitude is good enough for the Droid goose, it's good enough for the IE gander. Users of severely obsolete browsers are entirely used to broken or completely missing functionality on every other website they go to. Anyone running Windows 95 (which can't practicably handle Firefox, even if some people have figured out how to install it on that OS) isn't/won't be able to use Unicode, HTML5, XHTML 2, CSS 3, etc., and have and will remain having various other issues with Wikipedia and other MW-based sites (e.g., IE 6 had over 300 well-demonstrated CSS and HTML bugs in it). So, this whole bit about not breaking things for them is a bit of a red herring. I don't mean for this to start a big argument, and I'm not reopening the bug or anything. But it will have to be reopened eventually, and IE6 or whatever should not be a factor in the discussion at that time. Heck, Wikipedia not supporting obsolete MS browsers will be a strong upgrade incentive, given that WP is among the most-used websites in the world. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
