On 20 November 2012 23:54, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think a best of both worlds would be preferable. I haven't seen the
> stats, but I'd assume market share of IE 10 will be quite low. Still it
> would be silly to not strive to support it.

Well, until this month IE 10 wasn't released (just a developer
version; I wasn't counting these). Thus the "current and
immediately-previous versions" for IE would have been 9 and 8.
Supporting browsers before they're released is a nice-to-have and, as
you say, sensible to get ahead of the work, but it's not as crucial as
fixing "live" versions for millions of people.

> How about any browser released
> in the last n months whose browser family has more then x % market share
> plus any individual browser version with more then m % market share for
> some sensible figures n, x and m?

Interesting idea. Perhaps x = 5, m = 1 and n = 12; with these numbers
we'd get pretty much what I suggested, plus IE 7 and Opera 12. The
cost of supporting these (especially IE 7) would be heroic in some
areas, however - but that's what the "local policies" for different
features are for, after all.

J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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