Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Nikola Smolenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> Having accurate >> browser usage statistics would mean that we could precisely know what browser >> quirks should we support, in MediaWiki and Wikipedia's Javascript. > > I expect the goal should be "Work reasonably well for 99.999(pick your > length)% of users". While the average counts might be interesting > (i.e. that firefox is closer to 30% than the often claimed penetration > numbers for firefox) I don't know that precise numbers are actually > very helpful for most compatibility purposes: I don't think we could > ignore MSIE 5.x just because it is only 0.05% of requests from JS > enabled browsers (which it is on enwp), or that we could do something > different because MSIE 6.x is only 20.59% (likewise). >
I thought I had heard that wikibits.js (and possibly more) was already broken on IE5 and older? -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
