Hi, If you didn't take the Arun Ganesh's proposition seriously, you can ignore this mail.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Arun Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > As someone who writes css, I am particularly frightened by IE7. And I can > imagine there are a lot of frontend developers and staff out there who > spend significant time on fixing things for this niche audience, when they > could be working on more constructive things. I came across this service > today which has started to levy a a surcharge on IE7 users [1] and it got > me thinking. > > (...) > > As one of the most visited places on the internet, it is probably in the > best interests of the planet that we decide its no longer worthwhile to > support this fallen angel. Maybe it time to start showing a notice to IE7 > users that their days are numbered and wikipedia may no longer work as > expected unless they move forward in their lives. It has to happen some > day, so why not now and save the internet a lot of pain and suffering? Our mission isn't to "save the internet a lot of pain and suffering". The WMF mission is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.". I don't know if there are mission statement for the Wikimedia tech or the MediaWiki developers communities, but I don't think to improve some developers comfort pushing so strongly issues like not supporting a product help DIRECTLY our objectives WITHOUT BREAKING OTHER OBJECTIVES (like for the WMF, "to disseminate [the educational content] effectively and GLOBALLY"). I fear this GLOBALLY includes the 1.5-5% IE7 marketshare. -- Best Regards, Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson http://www.dereckson.be/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
