On 20 November 2012 22:12, Leslie Carr <[email protected]> wrote: > I hate to make our job more difficult, but I think Faidon had a good point -- > > <Quote> > 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. > </Quote> > > Perhaps a percentage of use threshold system would be a bit better? I > don't see a breakdown of a % of requests per client type > (desktop/phone/tablet) here - > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm , > but it should be creatable and hopefully bring a balance between > trying to come up with crazy workarounds for old clients and keeping > functionality for the vast majority of users.
Do you mean a breakdown by combination of OS, OS version, browser, and browser version? Yes, this would be very useful. The closest data on this I can find online[*] (Flash, eww) sadly doesn't give the breakdown by browser version (and the numbers are a little different to ours; they're probably polling from a different demographic). [*] - http://www.statowl.com/operating_system_market_share_by_os_version.php?timeframe=last_6&interval=month&chart_id=4&limit%5B%5D=windows&limit%5B%5D=mac&limit%5B%5D=linux&fltr_br=Internet+Explorer&fltr_se=&fltr_cn= J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
