On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:46:22PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
> "Current and immediately-previous" releases are also really hard to match
> up between projects on fast release cycles (like Chrome and Firefox which
> are pushing out new "major versions" every couple months) and those where
> "major versions" only change a few times per decade, like IE.
> 
> Supporting Chrome 22 (23 - 1) and supporting IE 9 (10 - 1) are totally
> different animals with different usage profiles. Really nobody should be
> running Chrome 22 -- it probably means your computer's broken and not
> installing updates -- but IE 9's all over the place -- as is 8.

Agreed. IE 9 is only supported from Vista onwards and Windows XP is
21.29% of our user base according to the latest stats¹. I'm not sure
it's realistic to say that 20% of our user base may just "happen to
work" by luck.

Regards,
Faidon

¹: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm

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