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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
