On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote:

> Absolutely not. We have debated the "show notice to broken browsers"
> thing multiple times--and the answer is always "it's annoying as hell
> when sites do it and it's not our place to do so."
>
> The stance on "supporting crappy old browsers" has largely over time
> turned into--continue supporting all browsers with at least 1% of our
> readers (roughly,I don't believe that number's ever been set in stone).
> Once they are less than 1%, continue supporting unless it's a burden
> to do so and/or makes support for newer browsers impossible. And lastly,
> never purposefully break a browser if you can help it.

Just to give some data: Looking at May, this 1% limit would mean
supporting the following browser versions (May 2012 data):

* Chrome 18.0 and 19.0
* MSIE 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0
* Firefox 3.6, 11.0 and 12.0
* Safari 534.55 (desktop), 6533.18 and 7534.48 (iOS)
* Opera 11.62 and 11.64
* Safari 533.1 (Android browser)

Furthermore, the following have no version at or over 1%, but do get
there or at least near when all versions are combined:
* Opera Mini
* WikipediaMobile (our own mobile app)
* BlackBerry browser
* Apple PubSub (rss reader)

-- 
André Engels, [email protected]

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