On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/6/14 Max Semenik <[email protected]>: >> But in any case, we must not annoy any significant >> part of our audience. > > We are site number 5 in popularity, more or less. We are talking about > annoying less than 10% of our audience, and for pretty good reasons: > giving them a faster and more secure web, and saving ourselves time, > effort, money and mental health. >
10% of our audience is still a huge number of people. Hell, so is 5%. We don't know their reasons for using an older browser--maybe Grandpa is still using his Compaq from 2001, maybe you work at a company like other people have alluded to. Maybe someone's just crazy and likes IE6/7. I think you're horribly exaggerating the effort and mental health expense required to maintain these browsers. > Google, which is the number 1 site in popularity, is annoying over 60% > of its audience with a Google Chrome advertisement right at the top of > http://www.google.com . Google is giving this to all versions of IE > and Firefox. > That's their prerogative--they're trying to sell a product. I personally think IE6/7 users would be better served by ditching IE entirely--preferably to a WebKit-based browser. Others might suggest Firefox. Others would say to grab the latest IE. There's even some weird kids who might suggest moving to Opera ;-) We should not implicitly advertising any browsers. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
