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.)
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