On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> As for IE6, that roadmap is quite simple in my opinion. > > At this point MediaWiki already degrades gracefully in older browsers in a > number of different ways. We've put our cut off point for javascript > execution in general at IE < 6 and Firefox < 4. And for stylesheets we also > support IE6 for the basic layout (enough for text to be readable in a way > that isn't distorted or hard to read). > > In any browsers where we don't abort the javascript pipeline from the > startup[1] module, there must be no fatal errors or uncaught exceptions due > to browser support. > > While a library doesn't have to throw an exception in an older browser per > se, in case of jQuery UI it's quite simple. We can only upgrade to jQuery > 1.10 when we drop IE6 support for Grade A. And when we do, IE6 will become > javascriptless[1] and jQuery UI will no longer be relevant as problem in > IE6. > This seems really reasonable. Are we still agreed that Grade A means anything over 1% of readership? If so, we should reconfirm what our browser share is really like, because last time I checked, IE6 was less than 1% of total and thus eligible for dropping from Grade A now and forever (he says with great antici.........pation.) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
