OK, next question is what costs would we be saving by dropping compatibility with IE 6 and 7?
If the cost of maintaining compatibility is minimal, at least for basic Wikipedia accessibility and editing, then I hope that compatibility continues. Compatibility for advanced features may require more effort than makes sense. On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 29/06/2014 21:11, Pine W a écrit : > > Do we still have populations of legitimate users who are working with > > Windows-based operating systems older than XP? I have heard that in the > > developing world Windows 2000 is still in use, despite its security > > vulnerabilities. That said, I would not oppose strongly encouraging users > > to switch to an operating system that gets security patches. > > > > Pine > > We have a monthly breakdown by OS at: > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm > > Windows NT 5.0 (2000) is 112M requests or 0.05% of total requests. > Windows 98 has 75.5M or 0.03% > > 100 millions requests is still a huge number :-) > > One of my Mac is still using Mac OS 10.5 which is quite old. I cant > upgrade it to a later version or it will just become too slow. Luckily, > there is nothing of important on that laptop, that is merely a spare one > I don't mind loosing. > > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
