You do know we still support IE6 right? We should probably discuss dropping IE6 support before IE7 :)
Ryan Kaldari On Jun 14, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
