I'm happy to see us talking about leaving these old browsers behind, but it seems a few existing policies and situations may have been overlooked in this thread thus far.
Hopefully this list of things to consider will be helpful: 1. We are planning on moving away from jQuery UI this year as part of our UI standardization push 2. We have a policy in place that any browser with 0.1% market share or more should be supported for reading and basic contribution 3. We have a policy that reading and basic contribution should be possible without JavaScript 4. Depending on the feature, IE 6 and 7 are already unsupported 5. Not supporting older browsers is not always about work involved, many times it is not possible to bring certain features to a browser because of lack of support or severe bugs - Trevor On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Daniel Norton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 29, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > > <http://globalsem.wordbank.com/global-marketing/ie6-china/> > > Reading between the lines: > updates are complicated. …[M]any of the Windows operating systems are not > direct purchases – these methods do not allow upgrade. > > i.e. virtually all copies of IE6 are pirated. > > There are also concerns in China about U.S.-government back doors into > later versions of I.E. > > > http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-china-clash-over-windows-8-and-charges-of-backdoor-spying/ > > — > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > 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
