On 1 February 2010 23:44, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Schneelocke <schneelo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe we should do the same - introduce bugs that will cause subtle >> breakages on browsers we'd rather not go out of our way to >> specifically support any longer, and see if anyone'll actually >> complain. :) > People are really bad at complaining, especially web users. We've had > prolonged obvious glitches which must have effected hundreds of > thousands of people and maybe we get a couple of reports. > Users appear to just hit the back button and move on, either they > don't care at all or they do care but assume it will be fixed without > their intervention. > What you propose is not a good policy, at least not in this application space. Indeed. It works for X because a lot of the cruft was corporate bad ideas from the early 1990s that they foolishly committed to supporting forever, including things that *never worked*, *ever*. Breaking them proved that nobody cared. The Xorg crew are desperately trying to drag a horrible old codebase into the 21st century. The only reason your Linux laptop works reasonably reliably is that the X codebase is very seasoned, not that it's not horrible ;-) Nevertheless, in our space it does require the people who advocate support to do the testing and complaining when it doesn't work, because, observably, no-one else is going to. As I said: applied bloody-mindedness. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
