On 6/29/14, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 16:56 +0100, Thomas Mulhall wrote: >> Hi could we discontinue support for internet explorer 6 and 7 because >> jquery ui 1.11.0 drops support for internet explorer 6 and 7. > > Could you elaborate how decisions made by Jquery UI developers are > relevant for us, and who the "we" is here? MediaWiki? > >> Windows xp support internet explorer 8. > > Could you elaborate why you think this is relevant? > (My computer might support software that can manage a nuclear power > plant, still I might not have that software installed because I don't > have a nuclear power plant handy.) > > In any case, absolute browser numbers for Wikimedia can be found on > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm > > andre > -- > Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler > http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Wait, we support internet explorer 6? (Currently IE 6 is 1.17% and 7 is 0.9%. On our scale, 1% is actually a very high number of people. However some bots probably use IE6 as a user-agent, so unclear if those numbers are inflated). I would expect basic site functionality to work in IE 6. You should be able to edit a page, you should be able to read your talk page, etc. I wouldn't expect fancy new features to work unless they are critical to site function. Basically I would expect grade "B" support for IE6 as suggested on this "outdated" page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Browser_support#Grade_B --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
