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)

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