Could IE6 and IE7 users edit without Javascript, perhaps by using the
mobile version of Wikipedia? Having a way for anyone to edit wikitext
without requiring Javascript sounds like a good idea anyway.


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflasc...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> On 06/29/2014 03:08 PM, Antoine Musso wrote:
>
>> Le 29/06/2014 20:15, Thomas Mulhall a écrit :
>>
>>> Well jquery iu says that less then 1% of those are using those
>>> browser so I think we should discontinue support for these browser
>>> windows xp can still get internet explorer 8 which supports more
>>> things then internet explorer 6 and 7.
>>>
>>
>> At Wikimedia website scale, that 1% is roughly 500 millions HTML pages
>> served over a month!
>>
>
> A decision to stop using IE 6 workarounds for JavaScript features would
> probably not affect readers (the vast majority of those using IE 6 and 7)
> very much.  It's not like we're going to blank the screen for old IE users.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
>
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